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Xantusia extorris WEBB, 1965

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Higher TaxaXantusiidae (Xantusiinae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Durangoan Night Lizard
S: Nocturna de Durango 
SynonymXantusia vigilis extorris WEBB 1965
Xantusia vigilis extorris — BEZY 1982
Xantusia extorris — PONCE-CAMPOS et al. 2001
Xantusia ‘extorris’ — SINCLAIR et al. 2004
Xantusia extorris — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008
Xantusia extorris — NOONAN et al. 2013 
DistributionMexico (Durango, Zacatecas, Coahuila)

Type locality: "3 miles south- west of Chocolate, at an elevation of 4550 feet, Durango, Mexico."  
Reproductionviviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: MSUM 6866 (Michigan State Univ. Mus.) , female, collected by R. G. Webb and A. L. Metcalf on 8-9 July 1963 
Diagnosis 
CommentSubspecies: SINCLAIR et al. (2004) did not recognize X. vi. utahensis and considered several taxa as “candidate species” (indicated in their paper and above by single quotes). For their arizonae, wigginsi and extorris, however, it remains unclear if they are morphologically diagnosable while ‘sierrae’ is. However, mtDNA haplotypes of sierrae nested within vigilis, hence we retain the subspecies status of sierrae. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin extorris, = banished, exiled. 
References
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