Xenosaurus
{{Short description|Genus of lizards}}
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| name = Xenosaurus
| image = Xenosaurus platyceps WLF-368-4X, Municipio Victoria; 12 July 2004.jpg
| image_caption = Xenosaurus platyceps
| taxon = Xenosaurus
| authority = W. Peters, 1861"Xenosaurus ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
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Xenosaurus is a genus of lizards; it is the only extant genus in the family Xenosauridae, with 14 species currently recognized."Xenosauridae" and "Xenosaurus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org. Also known as knob-scaled lizards, they can found in southwestern Tamaulipas and eastern Guerrero in Mexico.
{{Cite journal|vauthors=Nieto-Montes de Oca A, Barley AJ, Meza-Lázaro RN, García-Vázquez UO, Zamora-Abrego JG, Thomson RC, Leaché AD|date=January 2017|title=Phylogenomics and species delimitation in the knob-scaled lizards of the genus Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) using ddRADseq data reveal a substantial underestimation of diversity|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume=106|pages=241–253|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2016.09.001|pmid=27720785}}
These lizards are known to feed on a variety of crawling and flying insects. This genus mostly eats orthopterans, coleopterans (beetles), dipterans, and myriapods.{{Cite journal|vauthors=Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Ballinger RE|date=2003|title=Diets of Three Species of Knob-Scaled Lizards (Genus Xenosaurus) from México|jstor=3672749|journal=The Southwestern Naturalist|volume=48|issue=1|pages=119–122|doi=10.1894/0038-4909(2003)048<0119:DOTSOK>2.0.CO;2}}
Species
The following 14 species are recognized as being valid.{{cite web|title=Xenosaurus|website=Dahms Tierleben|language=de|url=https://www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/anguimorpha/xenosauridae|access-date=2020-05-09}}
- Xenosaurus agrenon {{small|King & F.G. Thompson, 1968}}
- Xenosaurus arboreus {{small|Lynch & Smith, 1965}}
- Xenosaurus fractus {{small|Nieto-Montes de Oca, Sánchez-Vega & Durán-Fuentes, 2018}}{{cite journal |url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=15095 |title=A new species of knob-scaled lizard (Xenosauridae, Xenosaurus) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Puebla, Mexico |year=2018 |issue=737 |journal=ZooKeys |doi=10.3897/zookeys.737.15095 |access-date=3 April 2018|doi-access=free |last1=Nieto-Montes De Oca |first1=Adrián |last2=Sánchez-Vega |first2=Helder |last3=Durán-Fuentes |first3=Itzel |pages=141–160 |pmid=29674877 |pmc=5904495 |bibcode=2018ZooK..737..141N }}
- Xenosaurus grandis {{small|(Gray, 1856)}}
- Xenosaurus manipulus {{small|Nieto-Montes de Oca, Castresana-Villanueva, Canseco-Márquez, & Campbell, 2022}}
- Xenosaurus mendozai {{small|Nieto-Montes de Oca et al., 2013}}
- Xenosaurus newmanorum {{small|Taylor, 1949}}
- Xenosaurus penai {{small|Pérez Ramos, de la Riva & Campbell, 2000}}
- Xenosaurus phalaroanthereon {{small|Nieto-Montes de Oca, Campbell & Flores-Villela, 2001}}
- Xenosaurus platyceps {{small|King & Thompson, 1968}}
- Xenosaurus rackhami {{small|L.C. Stuart, 1941}}
- Xenosaurus rectocollaris {{small|H.M. Smith & Iverson, 1993}}
- Xenosaurus sanmartinensis {{small|Werler & Shannon, 1961}} - San Martin knob-scaled lizard
- Xenosaurus tzacualtipantecus {{small|Woolrich-Piña & G.R. Smith, 2012}}
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Xenosaurus.
References
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Further reading
- Peters W (1861). "Eine neue Gattung von Eidechsen, Xenosaurus fasciatus, aus Mexico [= A new genus of lizards, Xenosaurus fasciatus, from Mexico]". Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie zu Berlin 1861: 453–454. (Xenosaurus, new genus). (in German).
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Category:Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters
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