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 REPULÍA: SAURIA: XENOSAURIDAE "^ 'A' "^ XENOSAURUS 



XENOSAURUS Peters 



1861 Xenosaurus Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1861: 453. Type-species: Xenosaurus fasciatus 

 Peters [= Xenosaurus grandis grandis (Gray)J. 



Distribution: Mexico to Guatemala. 



Content: Three species, two of which ( arboreus Lynch and Smith and platyceps King and Thompson) 

 are extral im i tal, according to latest revision by King and Thompson, Bull. Florida St. Mus., 

 12, 1568, 93-123. 



XENOSAURUS GRANDIS (Gray) 



18^6 Cubina grandis Gray. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (2) 18: 27O. Type-locality: Cordoba, Veracruz, 

 Mex i CO. 



Distribution: Mexico to Guatemala. 



Content: Five subspecies, four of which ( agrenon King and Thompson, grand i s Gray, sanmart i nens i s 

 Werler and Shannon and newmanorum Taylor) are extral imi tal. 



Xenosaurus grand i s rackham i Stuart 



1941 Xenosaurus rackhami Stuart. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 54: 47. Type-locality: Finca 



Volcán (45 km east of Coban), Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, I3OO m. 

 1565 Xenosaurus grandis rackhami — Lynch and Smith, Tran. Kansas Acad. Sc i . , 68: lyi. 



Distribution: Atlantic drainage in central Chiapas, Mexico, to east central Guatemala. 



