Lizards of
Mexico  
Knob-scaled Lizards
(Xenosauridae)  

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General remarks: The list includes only formally described species. Newly discovered, but still unnamed species are excluded. However, unnamed species or species unassigned to species level are included, if they are the only representatives of their genus in the region. Species counts exclude extinct and introduced species. Doubtful records, typically older voucher specimens of uncertain origin, have been excluded if considered questionable, as are records based on sources considered unreliable.
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Lizards (Sauria)
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Species
References
 Family Xenosauridae (Knob-scaled Lizards)
Genus Xenosaurus (Knob-scaled Lizards)
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Xenosaurus agrenon

Mountain Knob-scaled Lizard

Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 [as grandis] García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Aguilar-López, Solano-Zavaleta & Maceda-Cruz 2009 [as grandis] García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 [as grandis] King & Thompson 1968 Lara-Gongora 1986 [as g. grandis] Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2012 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Nieto-Montes de Oca, García-Vázquez, Zúñiga-Vega & Schmidt-Ballardo 2013 Smith & Taylor 1950 [as g. grandis] Wermuth 1969 [as g. grandis] Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña & Smith 2012 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017 [as grandis]
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Xenosaurus arboreus

Arboreal Knob-scaled Lizard

King & Thompson 1968 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2012 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Nieto-Montes de Oca, García-Vázquez, Zúñiga-Vega & Schmidt-Ballardo 2013 Wermuth 1969
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Xenosaurus fractus

Huehuetla Knob-scaled Lizard

Nieto-Montes de Oca, Sánchez-Vega & Durán-Fuentes 2018 Woolrich-Piña, Alvarado-Hernández, Mora-Guzmán, Arellano-Cárcamo, Olvera-Arrieta, González-Gonzalez & Sosa-Villanueva 2016 [as tzacualtipantecus] Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017 [as tzacualtipantecus]
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Xenosaurus grandis

Common Knob-scaled Lizard

Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Ceron de la Luz, Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Flores-Villela 1993 King & Thompson 1968 Köhler 2000 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2012 [as grandis X rackhami] Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Nieto-Montes de Oca, García-Vázquez, Zúñiga-Vega & Schmidt-Ballardo 2013 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wermuth 1969 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña & Smith 2012
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Xenosaurus mendozai

Queretaro Knob-scaled Lizard

Dixon & Lemos-Espinal 2010 [as Xenosaurus sp.] Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2012 [as Xenosaurus sp.] Nieto-Montes de Oca, García-Vázquez, Zúñiga-Vega & Schmidt-Ballardo 2013 Zamora-Abrego, Chang, Zuniga-Vega, Nieto-Montes de Oca & Johnson 2010 [as Xenosaurus sp.]
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Xenosaurus newmanorum

San Luis Potosí Knob-scaled Lizard

Flores-Villela 1993 King & Thompson 1968 Lara-Tufiño, Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Austria, Wilson & Berriozabal-Islas 2013 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2012 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Nieto-Montes de Oca, García-Vázquez, Zúñiga-Vega & Schmidt-Ballardo 2013 Smith & Taylor 1950 Taylor 1949a Wermuth 1969 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña & Smith 2012
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Xenosaurus penai

Guerreran Knob-scaled Lizard

Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2012 Liner 2007 Nieto-Montes de Oca, García-Vázquez, Zúñiga-Vega & Schmidt-Ballardo 2013 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Pérez-Ramos, Saldaña de la Riva & Campbell 2000 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Xenosaurus phalaroanthereon

Chin-spotted Knob-scaled Lizard

Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 García-Padilla & Mata-Silva 2014 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2012 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Nieto-Montes de Oca, Campbell & Flores-Villela 2001 Nieto-Montes de Oca, García-Vázquez, Zúñiga-Vega & Schmidt-Ballardo 2013 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña & Smith 2012
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Xenosaurus platyceps

Flat-headed Knob-scaled Lizard

Flores-Villela 1993 King & Thompson 1968 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2012 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Martin 1955 [as newmanorum] Martin 1958 [as newmanorum] Nieto-Montes de Oca, García-Vázquez, Zúñiga-Vega & Schmidt-Ballardo 2013 Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Wermuth 1969 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña & Smith 2012
 
Xenosaurus rackhami

Chiapas Knob-scaled Lizard

Alvarez del Toro 1982 Johnson, Ely & Webb 1976 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 King & Thompson 1968 Köhler 2000 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2012 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 McCoy & Horn 1962 Nieto-Montes de Oca, García-Vázquez, Zúñiga-Vega & Schmidt-Ballardo 2013 Peters & Donoso-Barros 1970 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wermuth 1969 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Xenosaurus rectocollaris

Pallid Knob-scaled Lizard

Canseco Márquez & Gutiérrez Mayén 2006 Canseco-Marquez, Gutierrez-Mayen & Salazar-Arenas 2000 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2012 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Nieto-Montes de Oca, García-Vázquez, Zúñiga-Vega & Schmidt-Ballardo 2013 Smith & Iverson 1993 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña & Smith 2012 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017
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Xenosaurus sanmartinensis

San Martin Knob-scaled Lizard

King & Thompson 1968 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2012 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Nieto-Montes de Oca, García-Vázquez, Zúñiga-Vega & Schmidt-Ballardo 2013 Wermuth 1969
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Xenosaurus tzacualtipantecus

Zacualtipán Knob-scaled Lizard

Camarillo-Rangel 1998 [as newmanorum] Flores-Hernández, Fernández-Badillo & Olvera Olvera 2012 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2015 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2012 [as Xenosaurus sp.] Nieto-Montes de Oca, García-Vázquez, Zúñiga-Vega & Schmidt-Ballardo 2013 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, Mendoza-Quijano, Cruz-Elizalde, Stephenson, Vite-Silva & Leyte-Manrique 2010 [as Xenosaurus sp.] Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña & Smith 2012