Xantusia

Xantusia vigilis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Familia: Xantusiidae
Subfamilia: Xantusiinae
Genus: Xantusia
Species (14): X. arizonae – X. bezyi – X. bolsonae – X. extorris – X. gilberti – X. gracilis – X. henshawi – X. jaycolei – X. riversiana – X. sanchezi – X. sherbrookei – X. sierrae – X. vigilis – X. wigginsi

Name

Xantusia Baird, 1859: 255

• Type species: Xantusia vigilis Baird, 1859, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Baird, S.F. 1859. Description of new genera and species of North American lizards in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10: 253–256. BHL

Additional references

• Papenfuss, T.J., Macey, J.R. & Schulte II, J.A. 2001. A New Lizard Species in the Genus Xantusia from Arizona. Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas 23: 1–9. hdl: 1808/25345 Reference page. 
• Vicario, S., Caccone, A. & Gauthier, J. 2003. Xantusiid “night” lizards: a puzzling phylogenetic problem revisited using likelihood-based Bayesian methods on mtDNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26(2): 243–261. DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00313-5 Reference page. 
• Sinclair, E.A., Bezy, R.L., Bolles, K., Camarillo R., J.L., Crandall, K.A. & Sites Jr., J.W. 2004. Testing Species Boundaries in an Ancient Species Complex with Deep Phylogeographic History: Genus Xantusia (Squamata: Xantusiidae). American Naturalist 164(3): 396–414. DOI: 10.1086/381404 Reference page. 
• Bezy, R.L., Bezy, K.B. & Bolles, K. 2008. Two New Species of Night Lizards (Xantusia) from Mexico. Journal of Herpetology 42(4): 680–688. JSTOR Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., Reyes, F., Kudera, J. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Xantusia . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 17 November 2021.

Vernacular names

• English: Night Lizards