Editing Xenosaurus

{{Short description|Genus of lizards}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = ''Xenosaurus''
| image = Xenosaurus platyceps WLF-368-4X, Municipio Victoria; 12 July 2004.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Xenosaurus platyceps]]''
| taxon = Xenosaurus
| authority = [[Wilhelm Peters|W. Peters]], 1861<ref>"''Xenosaurus'' ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.</ref>
}}

'''''Xenosaurus''''' is a [[genus]] of [[lizard]]s; it is the only extant genus in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Xenosauridae]], with 14 species currently recognized.<ref name="RDB">"Xenosauridae" and "''Xenosaurus'' ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref> Also known as '''knob-scaled lizards''', they can found in southwestern [[Tamaulipas]] and eastern [[Guerrero]] in Mexico.<ref name=":0">
{{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}}
</ref> These lizards are known to feed on a variety of crawling and flying insects. This genus mostly eats orthopterans, coleopterans (beetles), dipterans, and myriapods.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Species==
The following 14 [[species]] are recognized as being valid.<ref name="RDB" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Xenosaurus|website=Dahms Tierleben|language=de|url=https://www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/anguimorpha/xenosauridae|access-date=2020-05-09}}</ref>

*''[[Xenosaurus agrenon]]'' {{small|[[Frederick Wayne King|King]] & [[Fred Gilbert Thompson|F.G. Thompson]], 1968}}
*''[[Xenosaurus arboreus]]'' {{small|Lynch & Smith, 1965}}
*''[[Xenosaurus fractus]]'' {{small|Nieto-Montes de Oca, Sánchez-Vega & Durán-Fuentes, 2018}}<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
*''[[Xenosaurus grandis]]'' {{small|([[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1856)}}
*''[[Xenosaurus manipulus]]'' {{small|Nieto-Montes de Oca, Castresana-Villanueva, Canseco-Márquez, &  Campbell, 2022}}
*''[[Xenosaurus mendozai]]'' {{small|[[Adrián Nieto-Montes de Oca|Nieto-Montes de Oca]] et al., 2013}}
*''[[Xenosaurus newmanorum]]'' {{small|[[Edward Harrison Taylor|Taylor]], 1949}}
*''[[Xenosaurus penai]]'' {{small|[[Edmundo Pérez Ramos|Pérez Ramos]], [[Lucia Saldaña de la Riva|de la Riva]] & [[Jonathan A. Campbell|Campbell]], 2000}}
*''[[Xenosaurus phalaroanthereon]]'' {{small|Nieto-Montes de Oca, Campbell & [[Oscar Flores-Villela|Flores-Villela]], 2001}}
*''[[Xenosaurus platyceps]]'' {{small|King & Thompson, 1968}}
*''[[Xenosaurus rackhami]]'' {{small|[[:fr:Laurence Cooper Stuart|L.C. Stuart]], 1941}}
*''[[Xenosaurus rectocollaris]]'' {{small|[[Hobart Muir Smith|H.M. Smith]] & [[John B. Iverson|Iverson]], 1993}}
*''[[Xenosaurus sanmartinensis]]'' {{small|Werler & Shannon, 1961}} - San Martin knob-scaled lizard
*''[[Xenosaurus tzacualtipantecus]]'' {{small|[[Guillermo A. Woolrich-Piña|Woolrich-Piña]] & [[Geoffrey R. Smith|G.R. Smith]], 2012}}

''[[Nota bene]]'': A [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Xenosaurus''.

==References==
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==Further reading==
*[[Wilhelm Peters|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:Xenosauridae]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters]]
[[Category:Lizard genera]]


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