Chinese crocodile lizard

Chinese crocodile lizard (plural Chinese crocodile lizards)

1. A semiaquatic anguimorph lizard, 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.

• Shinisaurus crocodilurus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Shinisaurus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons