Xanthus , or nocturnal lizards [1] ( lat. Xantusia ), is a genus of reptiles from the family of nocturnal lizards of the Scots-like infraorder.
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 Desert night lizard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Xantusia Baird , 1859 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sizes of the genus are small to medium in size. Viviparous. They live in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico .
The name and description of the type species and genus were published in 1859 by Spencer Fullerton Byrd . He named the clan after the naturalist Janos Xanthus [2] .
Classification
As of March 2018, 14 species are included in the genus [3] :
- Xantusia arizonae Klauber , 1931 - Arizona Xanthus [1]
- Xantusia bezyi Papenfuss , Macey & JA Schulte , 2001
- Xantusia bolsonae Webb , 1970
- Xantusia extorris Webb, 1965 - Xanthus Exiled [1]
- Xantusia gilberti Van Denburgh , 1895
- Xantusia gracilis & Galvan , 1986
- Xantusia henshawi Stejneger , 1893 - Xanthus Henshaw [1]
- Xantusia jaycolei R. Bezy , K. Bezy & Bolles , 2008
- Xantusia riversiana Cope , 1883
- Xantusia sanchezi R. Bezy & Flores-Villela , 1999
- Xantusia sherbrookei R. Bezy, K. Bezy & Bolles, 2008
- Xantusia sierrae R. Bezy, 1967
- Xantusia vigilis Baird, 1859 - Desert Night Lizard , or Woody Night Lizard
- Xantusia wigginsi , 1952
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Ananyeva N. B. , Borkin L. Ya. , Darevsky I.S. , Orlov N. L. The bilingual dictionary of animal names. Amphibians and reptiles. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. Yaz., 1988 .-- S. 270. - 10,500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00232-X .
- ↑ Beolens B., Watkins M., Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press . xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5 . (Genus Xantusia , p. 291).
- ↑ The Reptile Database: genus Xantusia (English) (Retrieved April 5, 2018) .