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Chinese crocodile lizard en · NOUN

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1. A semiaquatic anguimorph lizard, of species Shinisaurus crocodilurus, found only in cool forests in southeastern China and northeastern Vietnam.
   • From left: Chinese crocodile lizard Shinisaurus crocodilurus (L. W. Porras); flathead knob-scaled lizard Xenosaurus platyceps, Xenosauridae (L. J. Vitt). 2009, Laurie J. Vitt, Janalee P. Caldwell, Herpetology, 3rd edition, Elsevier, Academic Press, page 544:
   • 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. 2013, George R. Zug, Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands, University of California Press, page 203:
   • 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). 2019, Hans-Dieter Sues, The Rise of Reptiles, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 136:
   • I saw a Japanese skink, a Chinese crocodile lizard, and a leopard gecko... They were all pretty docile. 2020, Patora Fuyuhara, In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 21, unnumbered page:

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Translations (6)

fr lézard crocodile de Chine (Shinisaurus crocodilurus) · de Chinesische Krokodilschwanzechse (Shinisaurus crocodilurus) · vi thằn lằn cá sấu (Shinisaurus crocodilurus) · cmn 瑤山鱷蜥 /瑶山鳄蜥 (Shinisaurus crocodilurus) · fi kiinankyhmylisko (Shinisaurus crocodilurus) · fi kiinankrokotiililisko (Shinisaurus crocodilurus)