- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Reptiles
- ›Snakes and Lizards
- ›Lizards
- ›Skinks and allies
- ›Night Lizards
- ›Xantusiinae
- ›Xantusia
Sierra Laguna Night Lizard
Xantusia gilberti
Xantusia gilberti, also known commonly as the Baja California night lizard and la nocturna de Baja California in Mexican Spanish, is a species of small lizard in the family Xantusiidae. The species is native to the southern Baja California Peninsula of Mexico.
From the article Xantusia gilberti on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The holotype of X. gilberti has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about 4 cm (1.6 in), and a tail length about equal to SVL. The eye is very small, with a vertical pupil. There are nine femoral pores on one leg and eight on the other.
In human culture
The specific name, gilberti, is in honor of American ichthyologist Charles Henry Gilbert.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Xantusia gilberti in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 318101.