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"text": "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.",
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"text": "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).",
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"ref": "2020, Patora Fuyuhara, In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 21, unnumbered page",
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