The combining form “Xanth-” means yellow. Quite a few animals have yellow, gold, auburn or tan coloration.
Xantho is a genus of crabs from the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean oceans.
“Xylo-” means wood. There are numerous creatures that are xylophagous, meaning they eat, burrow into, or destroy wood. Most are insects, of course.
Try that word on your furniture-gnawing woozle!
I like my wood pre-processed.
beavers eat bark and twigs, as well as using the logs to build their dams.
the Panaque catfish is unusual for eating wood. The only other group of fish with this adaptation is Hypostomus cochliodon.
“Xero-” means dry. A xerocole is an animal adapted to live in the desert. Most are nocturnal or crepuscular in hot deserts. Many are so adept at conserving water that they do not need to drink at all. The camel, addax, oryx, and aardvark get all the moisture they need from their food and from metabolizing it.
the kangaroo rat can go its entire life without taking a drink.
Many thanks to Travel for Wildlife website for this X-cellent list of X animals:
X-ray Tetra, Pristella maxillaris, found in the Amazon and Orinoco basins, has a somewhat translucent body. It tolerates slightly brackish water, and likes to live in large groups.
Xanthippe’s Shrew is found in Kenya and Tanzania. No photo found, but here’s another shrew who’s kinda cute.
Xantic Sargo (a fish in the grunt family) Anisotremus davidsonii. The pic is a related species, virginicus.
Xantus’ Becard, Platypsaris albiventris, (a bird in Mexico & Central America), one of the Cotingidae or Tityridae, there is some argument. The pic is of the closely related rose-throated becard.
Xantus’ Leaf-Toed Gecko Phyllodactylus xanti, (a lizard found in northwestern Mexico)
Xantus’ Murrelet, a small seabird found in the California Current system, has been split into two species now, the Scripps murrelet
Scripps’ murrelet chicks take to the sea at only two days old.
and the Guadalupe murrelet, which the image library flatly refuses to upload a small jpg of it.
Xantus’s Hummingbird, Hylocaris xantusii (a hummingbird in Baja California)
Xavier’s Greenbul, Phyllastrephus xavieri (a central African song bird) is a member of the bulbul family. Here is a brown-eared bulbul.
Xeme, an Arctic gull also known as Sabine’s gull or fork-tailed gull, breed on coasts and tundra, but spends the rest of its life at sea.
Xestus Sabretooth Blenny (a fish also known as the Xestus Fangblenny), reaches a length of 7 centimeters.
Xingu Corydoras, a bottom-feeding freshwater fish from Brazil, is often found in the aquarium trade.
Xingu River Ray, a freshwater stingray from Brazil, also called white-blotched river stingray or polka-dot stingray.
Xinjiang Ground-Jay, also called Biddulph’s ground-jay, is found in China. It is only a few inches long.
Xolocalca Bromeliad Salamander, Dendrotriton xolocalcae, a salamander only found in Cerro Ovando, Chiapas, Mexico. It lives in bromeliads; as many as 34 individuals have been seen in the same bromeliad.
Xoloitzcuintle or Xolo, a hairless domestic dog breed in Mexico, comes in standard, intermediate, and miniature sizes, and there is also a coated variety which does have full fur.
Xucaneb Robber Frog, Craugaster xucanebi, a Guatemalan frog. Here is a related species.
Craugastor fitzingeri
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