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night lizard - small secretive nocturnal lizard of southwestern North America and Cuba; bear live young

lizard - relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail

family Xantusiidae, Xantusiidae - night lizards

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The least common lizard was the Granite night lizard (Xantusia henshawi); we observed a single juvenile of this species underneath the same coverboard in Section 5 for five consecutive sample periods (almost certainly the same individual).

Rare alluvial sands of El Monte Valley, California (San Diego county), support high herpetofaunal species richness and diversity, despite severe habitat disturbance

Among the most charismatic of that bunch was the island night lizard, originally thought to be nocturnal (it's actually just secretive).

Night and day: after 30 years of intense habitat restoration on the Channel Islands, the island night lizard might be ready to come off the endangered species list

kinkiense (San Clemente Island larkspur), San Clemente loggerhead shrike (Lanium ludovicianus mearnsi), San Clemente sage sparrow (Amphispiza belli clementeae), and Island night lizard (Xantusia riversiana).

Recovery success for the first plants listed under the Endangered Species Act

The discovery of the desert night lizard family groups comes as a result of a five-year genetic study of more than 2,100 adults and juvenile lizards from the Mojave Desert of California.

Lizards too have family values

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