Lepidophyma
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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 20 species of tropical night lizards 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 particular species. Tropical night lizards, particularly the yellow-spotted species, are sometimes called Central American bark lizards by pet dealers and owners.
SpeciesEdit
The following 23 species are recognized as being valid.<ref>Template:EMBL genus www.reptile-database.org.</ref>
- Lepidophyma chicoasensis Template:Small – Sumidero tropical night lizard
- Lepidophyma cuicateca Template:Small – Sunidero tropical night lizard
- Lepidophyma dontomasi Template:Small – MacDougall's tropical night lizard
- Lepidophyma flavimaculatum Template:Small – Yellow-spotted tropical night lizard
- Lepidophyma gaigeae Template:Small – Gaige's tropical night lizard<ref name=EDR/>
- Lepidophyma inagoi Template:Small
- Lepidophyma jasonjonesi Template:Small
- Lepidophyma lineri Template:Small – Liner's tropical night lizard<ref name=EDR/>
- Lepidophyma lipetzi Template:Small– Lipetz's tropical night lizard<ref name=EDR/>
- Lepidophyma lowei Template:Small – Lowe's tropical night lizard<ref name=EDR/>
- Lepidophyma lusca Template:Small
- Lepidophyma mayae Template:Small – Mayan tropical night lizard
- Lepidophyma micropholis Template:Small – cave tropical night lizard
- Lepidophyma occulor Template:Small – Jalpan tropical night lizard
- Lepidophyma pajapanensis Template:Small – Pajapan tropical night lizard
- Lepidophyma radula Template:Small – Yautepec tropical night lizard
- Lepidophyma ramirezi Template:Small
- Lepidophyma reticulatum Template:Small – Costa Rican tropical night lizard
- Lepidophyma smithii Template:Small – (Andrew) Smith's tropical night lizard<ref name=EDR>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. (Lepidophyma gaigeae, p. 96; L. lineri, p. 159; L. lipetzi, p. 159; L. lowei, p. 161; L. smithii, p. 246).</ref>
- Lepidophyma sylvaticum Template:Small – Madrean tropical night lizard
- Lepidophyma tarascae Template:Small – Tarascan tropical night lizard
- Lepidophyma tuxtlae Template:Small – Tuxtla tropical night lizard
- Lepidophyma zongolica Template:Small
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lepidophyma.
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. ... Xantusiidæ .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I–XXIV. (Genus Lepidophyma, p. 326).
- Duméril AHA (1851). In: Duméril AMC, Duméril AHA (1851). Catalogue méthodique de la Collection des Reptiles du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. Paris: Gide et Baudry/Roret. 224 pp. (Lepidophyma, new genus, p. 137). (in French).
- Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.B. Freeman and Company. xi + 378 pp. Template:ISBN. (Genus Lepidophyma, p. 287).