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Chinese crocodile lizard

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A Chinese crocodile lizard

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Chinese crocodile lizard (plural Chinese crocodile lizards)

  1. A semiaquatic anguimorph lizard, of species Shinisaurus crocodilurus, found only in cool forests in southeastern China and northeastern Vietnam.
    • 2009, Laurie J. Vitt, Janalee P. Caldwell, Herpetology, 3rd edition, Elsevier, Academic Press, page 544:
      From left: Chinese crocodile lizard Shinisaurus crocodilurus (L. W. Porras); flathead knob-scaled lizard Xenosaurus platyceps, Xenosauridae (L. J. Vitt).
    • 2013, George R. Zug, Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands, University of California Press, page 203:
      The Anniellidae (North American Legless Lizards), Helodermatidae (Gila Monster), Lanthanotidae (Earless Monitor), and Shinisauridae (Chinese Crocodile Lizard) have only one or two species; Xenosauridae (Knob-scaled Lizards) has six species in Mexico and northern Central America.
    • 2019, Hans-Dieter Sues, The Rise of Reptiles, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 136:
      McDowell and Bogert (1954) argued that the present-day Xenosaurus (knob-scaled lizards) and Shinisaurus (Chinese crocodile lizard) are closely related to each other even though they differ considerably in overall appearance (Fig. 7.40A).
    • 2020, Patora Fuyuhara, In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 21, unnumbered page:
      I saw a Japanese skink, a Chinese crocodile lizard, and a leopard gecko... They were all pretty docile.

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