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Xantusia arizonae (Desert Night Lizard)

Synonyms: Xantusia vigilis arizonae

Wikipedia Abstract

The Arizona night lizard (Xantusia arizonae) is a small smooth-skinned gray-brown lizard with dark spots that sometimes form partial lines down the back. The lizard has a slightly flattened head. The scales of the underside and tail are larger than those of the upper side. The lizard grows to a length of 6 to 10 cm.
View Wikipedia Record: Xantusia arizonae

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.5 grams
Female Weight [2]  3 grams
Habitat Substrate [3]  Saxicolous
Litter Size [2]  2
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [4]  11 years
Reproductive Mode [3]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  1.575 inches (4 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No

Predators

Arizona elegans (arenicola)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Parapharyngodon californiensis[6]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Meiri, 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
♦ 4de 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
♦ 5Food Habit of the Glossy Snake, Arizona elegans, with Comparisons to the Diet of Sympatric Long-nosed Snakes, Rhinocheilus lecontei, Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Christopher J. Bell, Harry W. Greene, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 87-92, 1999
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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