Xantusia bezyi
Papenfuss, Macey, and Schulte, 2001
zan-TOO-see-ah — BEH-zee-eye
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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Province/State Distribution:
United States: Arizona
Taxonomic Etymology:
Named for a prominent herpetologist.
Xantusia — Named in honor of John Xantus de Vesey (1825–1894), a Hungarian-born zoologist and collector who worked in California and Mexico. Many reptiles and other animals bear his name.
bezyi — A patronym honoring Robert L. Bezy, an American herpetologist recognized for his research on night lizards and other southwestern reptiles.
First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
The Reptile Database
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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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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Papenfuss, Theodore J., Macey, J. R., and Schulte II, J. A. A new lizard in the genus Xantusia from Arizona. Scientific Papers of the Natural History Museum, University of Kansas (23):1-9
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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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