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Xenosaurus platyceps KING & THOMPSON, 1968

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Higher TaxaXenosauridae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Flathead Knob-scaled Lizard
S: Xenosauro de Cabeza-plana 
SynonymXenosaurus platyceps KING & THOMPSON 1968: 113
Xenosaurus platyceps — LINER 1994
Xenosaurus platyceps — PÉREZ RAMOS et al. 2000
Xenosaurus platyceps — PIANKA & VITT 2003: 237
Xenosaurus platyceps — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008
Xenosaurus platyceps — JOHNSON et al. 2017 
DistributionMexico (Tamaulipas)

Type locality:. Tamaulipas., 15,4 mi SSW Ciudad Victoria on road to Jaumave, 4,500 feet elevation.  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: UMMZ 126048: collected 16 August 1965 by Fred G. Thompson. Paratypes: UMMZ 126044, 126045, 126046, 126047, 126049, 12650; UF 25005; REE 1791; all same data as the type. 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 5280 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentDistribution: see map in WOOLRICH-PIÑA & SMITH 2012. Not in Querétaro fide Tepos-Ramírez et al. (2023). 
References
  • Augstenová, Barbora, Eleonora Pensabene, Lukáš Kratochvíl, and Michail Rovatsos. 2021. Cytogenetic Evidence for Sex Chromosomes and Karyotype Evolution in Anguimorphan Lizards. Cells 10, no. 7: 1612 - get paper here
  • Bhullar, B-A. S. 2011. The Power and Utility Of Morphological Characters In Systematics: A Fully Resolved Phylogeny of Xenosaurus and Its Fossil Relatives (Squamata: Anguimorpha). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 160 (3): 65–181 - get paper here
  • Ebel, R., Broeckhoven, C., Stanley, E. L., Ramm, T., & Keogh, J. S. 2025. Dermal armour in lizards: osteoderms more common than presumed. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 204(3), zlaf070 - get paper here
  • Johnson, J. D., L. D. Wilson, V. Mata-Silva, E. García-Padilla, and D. L. DeSantis. 2017. The endemic herpetofauna of Mexico: organisms of global significance in severe peril. Mesoamerican Herpetology 4 (3): 544–620 - 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
  • Lemos-Espinal, J. A., G. R. Smith and R. E. Ballinger 2004. Aspects of the ecology of a distinct population of Xenosaurus platyceps from Querétaro, México. Amphibia-Reptilia 25 (2): 204-210 - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal, Julio A.;Smith, Geoffrey R.;Ballinger, Royce E. 1998. Natural history of Xenosaurus platyceps, a crevice-dwelling lizard from Tamaulipas, México. Herpetological Natural History 5 (2): 181-186 [1997]
  • Molina-Zuluaga, Claudia, Paul F. Doherty, J. Jaime Zúñiga-Vega, and J. Gastón Zamora-Abrego 2013. Survivorship, Growth, and Detection of a Knob-scaled Lizard in Queretaro, Mexico. Journal of Herpetology Mar 2013, Vol. 47, No. 1: 156-161. - 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; 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
  • Pérez Ramos, Edmundo; Lucia Saldaña de la Riva; Jonathan A. Campbell 2000. A new allopatric species of Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) from Guerrero, Mexico. Herpetologica 56 (4): 500-506 - get paper here
  • Pianka, E.R. & Vitt, L.J. 2003. Lizards - Windows to the Evolution of Diversity. University of California Press, Berkeley, 347 pp. [review in Copeia 2004: 955] - get paper here
  • ROJAS-GONZÁLEZ, R. ISAAC; JULIO A. LEMOS-ESPINAL & GEOFFREY R. SMITH. 2022. Ectoparasite prevalence of the Flathead Knob-scaled Lizard Xenosaurus platyceps in tropical and temperate populations. Salamandra 58(1): 76–80. - get paper here
  • Rojas-González, R.I., J.J. Zúñiga-Vega & J.A. Lemos-Espinal 2008. Reproductive Variation of the Lizard Xenosaurus platyceps: Comparing Two Populations of Contrasting Environments Journal of Herpetology 42 (2): 332-336. - get paper here
  • Rojas-González, Ramon Isaac, and Joan Gastón Zamora-Abrego. 2016. First record of snake predation in Xenosaurid lizards: Xenosaurus platyceps feeding on Adelphicos quadrivirgatum. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3(4): 1013–1014 - get paper here
  • Smith, G.R., J.A. Lemos-Espinal, and R.E. Ballinger 2000. Xenosaurus platyceps King and Thompson Flathead Knob-scaled Lizard. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (715): 1-2 - get paper here
  • Terán-Juárez, Sergio A., Elí García Padilla, Vicente Mata-Silva, Jerry D. Johnson and Larry David Wilson. 2016. The herpetofauna of Tamaulipas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (1): 43–113 - get paper here
  • Terán-Juárez, Sergio Alejandro; Pablo Antonio Lavín Murcio, Elí García-Padilla y David Lazcano Villarreal 2024. Reptiles. En: La biodiversidad en Tamaulipas. Estudio de Estado. Vol. ii. Conabio, México, pp. 447-456 - get paper here
  • Woolrich-Piña, Guillermo A. and Geoffrey R. Smith 2012. A New Species of Xenosaurus from the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico. Herpetologica 68 (4): 551-559. - get paper here
 
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