Species

Xenosaurus rackhami

Xenosaurus rackhami · described by STUART 1941

Xenosaurus fractus, a close relative of Xenosaurus rackhami

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

The facts

Scientific name
Xenosaurus rackhami
First described
STUART 1941
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.

Where it sits on the tree