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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 — KING & THOMPSON 1968: 106
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;  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 56576 T. MacDougall; February, 1964 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions are available for collaborators and contributors. We will relaease that material sometime next year. Please contact us if you need any of this data earlier than that. 
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
  • Bautista-del Moral, A.B.-D., Palacios-Aguilar, R., Palacios-Reséndiz, F.S. & Arenas-Moreno, D.M. 2026. A new species of Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, Mexico. Zootaxa, 5875 (3), 247–264 - get paper here
  • King, F. W., & THOMPSON, F. G. 1968. A review of the American lizards of the genus Xenosaurus Peters. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 12: 93-123. - 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, A., J. A. CAMPBELL & O. FLORES-VILLELA 2001. A new species of Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico. Herpetologica 57 (1): 32-47 - 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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