Xenosaurus

Xenosaurus
Xenosaurus grandis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Sauria
Infraorder:	Anguimorpha
Family:	Xenosauridae
Genus:	Xenosaurus W. Peters, 1861[1]

Xenosaurus is a genus of lizards, the only genus in the family Xenosauridae.^[2]

Species

The following ten species are recognized as being valid.^[2][3]

• Xenosaurus agrenon King & F.G. Thompson, 1968
• Xenosaurus grandis (Gray, 1856)
• Xenosaurus mendozai Nieto-Montes de Oca et al., 2013
• Xenosaurus newmanorum Taylor, 1949
• Xenosaurus penai Pérez Ramos, de la Riva & Campbell, 2000
• Xenosaurus phalaroantheron Nieto-Montes de Oca, Campbell & Flores-Villela, 2001
• Xenosaurus platyceps King & Thompson, 1968
• Xenosaurus rackhami L.C. Stuart, 1941
• Xenosaurus rectocollaris H.M. Smith & Iverson, 1993
• Xenosaurus tzacualtipanecus 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

1. "Xenosaurus ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
2. "Xenosauridae" and "Xenosaurus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
3. "Xenosaurus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/diploglossa/Xenosauridae.

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).