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Xenosaurus
Sign in to saveXenosaurus is a genus of lizards; it is the only extant genus in the family Xenosauridae, with 14 species recognized. Also known commonly as knob-scaled lizards, species of Xenosaurus can found in Mexico and Guatemala. These lizards are known to feed on a variety of crawling and flying insects. This genus mostly eats orthopterans, coleopterans (beetles), dipterans, and myriapods.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Xenosaurus is referenced by 27 other articles, and connects out to Animalia, Reptilia and species.
Vinony files it under Lizard genera, Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters and Xenosauridae.
Its subject is documented across 19 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassSquamata
- FamilyXenosauridae
Observations recorded2,517
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 66
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Xenosauridae
- Collections
- FCB-BUAP, UCMP, UTA, CAS, MZFC-FC-UNAM
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
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- Parent taxon
- Xenosauridae
- Image
- Chin-krokodilschwanzechse-01.jpg
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- genus
- taxon name
- Xenosaurus
- Commons category
- Xenosaurus
- topic's main category
- Category:Xenosaurus
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