Hump lizards
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Xenosaurus platyceps |
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| Xenosauridae | ||||||||||||
| Cope , 1866 | ||||||||||||
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| Xenosaurus | ||||||||||||
| Peters , 1861 |
The hump lizards ( Xenosaurus ) are a genus from the order of the scale reptiles (Squamata).
They are native to Mexico, Central America, and southern China. Your closest relatives are the sneaks and the ringed sneaks . Under their scales they have bone plates that are not fused together. You have well-developed extremities.
Systematics
Hump lizards belong to the creeping i. e. S. (Diploglossa) and are the sister group of a common taxon from sneaks (Anguidae) and crusty lizards (Helodermatidae). The Chinese crocodile tail lizard ( Shinisaurus crocodilurus ), which used to belong to the Xenosauridae , is now part of the monotypical family Shinisauridae.
species
- Common hump lizard ( Xenosaurus grandis ( Gray , 1856))
- Xenosaurus fractus Nieto-Montes de Oca , Sánchez-Vega & Durán-Fuentes , 2018
- 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 rectocollaris Smith & Iverson , 1993
Web links
Commons : Hump Lizard (Xenosauridae) - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Animal Diversity Web Family Xenosauridae
- Xenosaurus in The Reptile Database
Individual evidence
- ↑ T. Townsend, A. Larson, E. Louis, JR Macey: Molecular phylogenetics of squamata: the position of snakes, amphisbaenians, and dibamids, and the root of the squamate tree. In: Systematic Biology. Volume 53, No. 5, 2004, pp. 735-757, doi: 10.1080 / 10635150490522340 , PMID 15545252 .
- Jump up ↑ Adrián Nieto-Montes de Oca, Helder Sánchez-Vega, Itzel Durán-Fuentes: A New Species of Knob-scaled Lizard (Xenosauridae, Xenosaurus ) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Puebla, Mexico. In: ZooKeys . Volume 737, 2018, pp. 141-160, doi: 10.3897 / zookeys.737.15095 .