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Xantusia gilberti

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Species of lizard

Xantusia gilberti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Xantusiidae
Genus: Xantusia
Species: X. gilberti
Binomial name
Xantusia gilberti
Van Denburgh, 1895
Synonyms
  • Xantusia gilberti
    Van Denburgh, 1895
  • Amoebopsis gilberti
    — Cope, 1895
  • Xantusia vigilis gilberti
    — Savage, 1952
  • Xantusia gilberti
    — Sinclair et al., 2004

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.

Etymology

The specific name, gilberti, is in honor of American ichthyologist Charles Henry Gilbert.

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.

Reproduction

X. gilberti is viviparous.

References

  1. ^ Xantusia gilberti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2020.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Xantusia vigilis gilberti, p. 100).
  3. Van Denburgh (1895).

Further reading

  • Savage JM (1952). "Studies on the Lizard Family Xantusiidae I. The Systematic Status of the Baja California Night Lizards Allied to Xantusia vigilis, with the Description of a New Subspecies". American Midland Naturalist 48 (2): 467–479. (Xantusia vigilis gilberti, new taxonomic status).
  • Sinclair EA, Bezy RL, Bolles K, Camarillo JL, Crandall KA, Sites JW (2004). "Testing Species Boundaries in an Ancient Species Complex with Deep Phylogeographic History: Genus Xantusia (Squamata: Xantusiidae)". American Naturalist 164 (3): 396–414. (Xantusia gilberti).
  • Van Denburgh J (1895). "A Review of the Herpetology of Lower California. Part I — Reptiles". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Second Series 5: 77–163 + Plates IV–XIV. (Xantusia gilberti, new species, pp. 121–122 + Plate XI, figures A–F).


Taxon identifiers
Xantusia gilberti


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