Xantusia henshawi
Stejneger, 1893
zan-two-ZEE-uh — hen-sawW-ai
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Henshaw's Night Lizard (Xantusia henshawi: Van Denburgh, John. 1897. The reptiles of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin: An account of the species known to inhabit California, and Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Nevada. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 5():9-236); Granite Night Lizard (Xantusia henshawi: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
The Reptile Database
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1893
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Stejneger, Leonhard H. Diagnosis of a new Californian lizard. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 16:467
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1975
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Stewart, Glenn R. and Ronald S. Daniel. Microornamentation of lizard scales: Some variations and taxonomic correlations. Herpetologica 31(1):117-130
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1976
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Lee, Julian C. Xantusia henshawi. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (189):1-2
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1986
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Crother, Brian I., Michael M. Miyamoto, and William F. Presch. Phylogeny and biogeography of the lizard family Xantusiidae. Systematic Zoology 35(1):37-45
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2001
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Lovich, Robert. Phylogeography of the night lizard, Xantusia henshawi, in southern California: Evolution across fault zones. Herpetologica 57(4):470-487
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2013
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Noonan, Brice P., Jennifer B. Pramuk, Robert L. Bezy, Elizabeth A. Sinclair, Kevin de Queiroz, and Jack W. Sites, Jr. Phylogenetic relationships within the lizard clade Xantusiidae: Using
trees and divergence times to address evolutionary questions at multiple
levels Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69(2013):109-122
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