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    Species Accepted

    Xenosaurus platyceps King & Thompson, 1968

    Flathead Knob-scaled Lizard

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      7 results
      Flathead Knob-scaled Lizard English
      Lagartija escamas de perilla de cabeza plana Spanish
      Xenosaurio cabeza plana Spanish
      Xenosauro de Cabeza-plana Spanish
      krokodýlovec mexický Czech
      Плоскоголовый ксенозавр Russian
      ヒラズコブトカゲ Japanese

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      22 results
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      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].
      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.
      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.
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      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.
      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.
      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.
      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.

      Citation

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