Xenosaurus manipulus
Xenosaurus manipulus · described by NIETO-MONTES DE OCA, CASTRESANA-VILLANUEVA, CANSECO-MÁRQUEZ & CAMPBELL 2022
Pictured: Xenosaurus fractus, a close relative from the same genus. This species is still waiting for its first free photo.
Fossil specimen.
Photo: (Photographs by Luis Canseco Márquez) Nieto-Montes de Oca A, Sánchez-Vega H, Durán-Fuentes I (2018) A new species of knob-scaled lizard (Xenosauridae, Xenosaurus) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Puebla, Mexico. ZooKeys 737: 141-160. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.737.15095, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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The facts
- Scientific name
- Xenosaurus manipulus
- First described
- NIETO-MONTES DE OCA, CASTRESANA-VILLANUEVA, CANSECO-MÁRQUEZ & CAMPBELL 2022
- Class
- Reptiles (Reptilia)
- Order
- Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)
- Group
- Lizards (Sauria)
- Family
- Xenosauridae
- Genus
- Xenosaurus
Taxonomic data: Uetz, P. et al. (eds.), The Reptile Database, under CC-BY 4.0.