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.

   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

   3 more examples

   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