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Tropical Night Lizards
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Tropical Night Lizards

Lepidophyma

Lepidophyma is a genus of lizards, commonly called Tropical night lizards. The genus Lepidophyma (Greek for "warty scales") is one of three genera of night lizards (family Xantusiidae), which are a group of viviparous (live-bearing) lizards. There are 19 species of tropical night lizard in the genus Lepidophyma, making it the most populous night lizard genus. Species of the genus Lepidophyma are distributed throughout Central America, found anywhere from central Mexico to Panama, depending on the...

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23 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 23 known species

Yellow-spotted Night Lizard

speciesLepidophyma flavimaculatum

Costa Rican Tropical Night Lizard

speciesLepidophyma reticulatum

Madrean Tropical Night Lizard

speciesLepidophyma sylvaticum

Smith's Tropical Night Lizard

speciesLepidophyma smithii

Tuxtla Tropical Night Lizard

speciesLepidophyma tuxtlae

Pajapan Tropical Night Lizard

speciesLepidophyma pajapanensis

Gaige's Tropical Night Lizard

speciesLepidophyma gaigeae

Japlan Tropical Night Lizard

speciesLepidophyma occulor

Cave Tropical Night Lizard

speciesLepidophyma micropholis

Lepidophyma lusca

speciesLepidophyma lusca

Tarascan Tropical Night Lizard

speciesLepidophyma tarascae

Lepidophyma zongolicum

speciesLepidophyma zongolicum

Lepidophyma inagoi

speciesLepidophyma inagoi

Lepidophyma jasonjonesi

speciesLepidophyma jasonjonesi

Mayan Tropical Night Lizard

speciesLepidophyma mayae

Lepidophyma ramirezi

speciesLepidophyma ramirezi

Liner’s Tropical Night Lizard

speciesLepidophyma lineri

Lowe’s Tropical Night Lizard

speciesLepidophyma lowei

MacDougall's Tropical Night Lizard

speciesLepidophyma dontomasi

Lipetz's Tropical Night Lizard

speciesLepidophyma lipetzi

Lepidophyma cuicateca

speciesLepidophyma cuicateca

Yautepec Tropical Night Lizard

speciesLepidophyma radula

Lepidophyma chicoasensis

speciesLepidophyma chicoasensis

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