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Xenosaurus arboreus LYNCH & SMITH, 1965

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Higher TaxaXenosauridae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Arboreal Knob-scaled Lizard
S: Xenosauro Arboricola 
SynonymXenosaurus arboreus LYNCH & SMITH 1965
Xenosaurus grandis arboreus — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008
Xenosaurus arboreus — NIETO-MONTES DE OCA et al. 2013
Xenosaurus arboreus — NIETO-MONTES DE OCA et al. 2016
Xenosaurus arboreus — NIETO-MONTES DE OCA et al. 2022 
DistributionMexico (SE Oaxaca)

Type locality: Mexico: Siera Madre, N of Zanatepec, Oaxaca;  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 56576 T. MacDougall; February, 1964 
Diagnosis 
CommentPhylogenetics: for a comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the family Xenosauridae and its species see Parks et al. 2022.

Distribution: see map in Nieto-Montes de Oca et al. 2022: 48 (Fig. 6). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin arboreus, referring to the tree-dwelling habits of this (sub-) species. 
References
  • Aguilar-López JL, Luría-Manzano R, Pineda E, Canseco-Márquez L 2021. Selva Zoque, Mexico: an important Mesoamerican tropical region for reptile species diversity and conservation. ZooKeys 1054: 127-153 - get paper here
  • Lynch, John D.; Smith, Hobart M. 1965. A new species of Xenosaurus (Reptilia: Xenosauridae) from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 68 (1): 163-172 - get paper here
  • Nieto-Montes de Oca, Adrián; Anthony J. Barley, Rubi N. Meza-Lázaro, Uri O. García-Vázquez, Joan G. Zamora-Abrego, Robert C. Thomson, Adam D. Leaché 2016. Phylogenomics and species delimitation in the knob-scaled lizards of the genus Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) using ddRADseq data reveal a substantial underestimation of diversity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106: 241-253 - get paper here
  • Nieto-Montes de Oca, Adrián; Nicté Castresana-Villanueva, Luis Canseco-Márquez & Jonathan A. Campbell 2022. A New Species of Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) from the Sierra de Juárez of Oaxaca, Mexico Herpetologica 78(1): 40–50. - get paper here
  • Nieto-Montes de Oca, Adrián; Uri O. García-Vázquez, J. Jaime Zúñiga-Vega and Walter Schmidt-Ballardo 2013. A new species of Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) from the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve of Querétaro, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 84: 485-498 - get paper here
  • Parks, R., Harrington, S. M., & Thomson, R. C. 2022. Divergence Dating and Biogeography of Xenosauridae Including Fossils as Terminal Taxa. Journal of Herpetology 56 (3): 349-354 - get paper here
 
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