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The yellow-spotted night lizard is sometimes suggested to be the inspiration for the "yellow-spotted lizards" in the children's novel Holes by Louis Sachar.However, in the making of the movie adaptation of the novel, the filmmakers used bearded dragons and painted yellow spots on them, rather than using actual yellow-spotted night lizards.
The species found in Guatemala is the beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum), which occurs in two subspecies, including the Motagua Valley subspecies (H. h. charlesborgeti), one of the rarest lizards in the world, with a wild population of fewer than 200 animals.
Lepidophyma cuicateca Canseco-Márquez et al., 2008 – Sunidero tropical night lizard; Lepidophyma dontomasi (H.M. Smith, 1942) – MacDougall's tropical night lizard; Lepidophyma flavimaculatum A.H.A. Duméril, 1851 – Yellow-spotted tropical night lizard; Lepidophyma gaigeae Mosauer, 1936 – Gaige's tropical night lizard [2]
Young water monitor V. s. macromaculatus Closeup showing split tongue. The Asian water monitor is dark brown or blackish with yellow spots on the underside that fade gradually with age. It has blackish bands with yellow edges extending back from each eye. Its body is muscular, with long, powerful, laterally compressed tails.
The yellow-spotted monitor [1] [2] [3] (Varanus panoptes), also known as the Argus monitor, [4] is a monitor lizard found in northern and western regions of Australia and southern New Guinea. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Feb. 5—A lizard species once feared to be vanishingly scarce is now known to have several thriving populations across its historical range in the Edwards Plateau region of Central and West Texas ...
Yellow-spotted tropical night lizard; Yellow-throated Plated Lizard This page was last edited on 30 December 2019, at 21:43 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
They're yet another invasive species that has been spotted in more than half of Florida's 67 counties. ... as iguanas or Nile monitors — more non-native species found in Florida — the Peter's ...