Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The desert night lizard is most commonly found underneath fallen dead trees, fallen ecological debris (plant limbs, Spanish dagger, Quixote Plants), and amongst the spiny leaves of Joshua Trees. The desert night lizard avoids visibility and may select its habitat as an added layer of protection and obscurity from predatory species.
Xantusia wigginsi, Wiggins's desert night lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Xantusiidae. It is a small lizard found in California and Mexico. [1] References
Xantusia riversiana Cope, 1883 – island night lizard; Xantusia sanchezi R. Bezy & Flores-Villela, 1999 – Sanchez's night lizard; Xantusia sherbrookei R. Bezy, K. Bezy & Bolles, 2008; Xantusia sierrae R. Bezy, 1967 – sierra night lizard; Xantusia vigilis Baird, 1859 – desert night lizard; Xantusia wigginsi Savage, 1952 – Wiggins's ...
Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) are a group of small scincomorph lizards, averaging from less than 4 cm (1.6 in) to over 12 cm (4.7 in) snout–vent length. Most species are viviparous (live-bearing), with the exception of those in the genus Cricosaura. The family has only three living genera, with approximately 34 [1] living species.
Yellow-spotted tropical night lizard; Yuman Desert fringe-toed lizard This page was last edited on 31 August 2018, at 13:25 (UTC). Text is ...
Bezy's night lizard ... Desert highlands and pine woodlands are the preferred habitats of X. bezyi, [3] where it is found under exfoliating rock in granite outcrops. [1]
Desert night lizard This page was last edited on 28 December 2019, at 06:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
The sandstone night lizard (Xantusia gracilis) is a species of night lizard. Prior to 2005, it was considered a subspecies of the granite night lizard , Xantusia henshawi . The physical difference is that the sandstone night lizard has lighter coloration.