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Lepidophyma flavimaculatum (Yellow-spotted Night Lizard)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow-spotted tropical night lizard or yellow-spotted night lizard (Lepidophyma flavimaculatum) is a species of night lizard. It is distributed from central Mexico through the Central America south to Panama. It includes four subspecies: \n* Lepidophyma flavimaculatum flavimaculatum \n* Lepidophyma flavimaculatum ophiophthalmum \n* Lepidophyma flavimaculatum tehuanae \n* Lepidophyma flavimaculatum tenebrarum
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Infraspecies

Lepidophyma flavimaculatum flavimaculatum (Mexican night lizard)
Lepidophyma flavimaculatum ophiophthalmum

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  11.3 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Arboreal, Saxicolous, Terrestrial
Maximum Longevity [3]  11 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [4]  3.15 inches (8 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0