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Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) are a
group of
small scincomorph lizards,
averaging from less than 4 cm (1.6 in) to over 12 cm (4.7 in) snout–vent length...
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Parthenogenetic species are
suspected to
occur among chameleons, agamids,
xantusiids, and typhlopids. Some
reptiles exhibit temperature-dependent **** determination...
- lizard). †Palaeoxantusia †P. cf. P.
borealis Chadronian late
Eocene A
xantusiid (night lizard). †Paraphrynosoma †P.
greeni Orellan early Oligocene A rare...
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naturalist John Xantus.
Based on the most
current phylogenetic analyses of
Xantusiid lizards, The earliest-diverging
species of the
genus is
Xantusia riversiana...
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species of
Parasaniwa or Provaranosaurus-like varanoids.
Xantusiidae Xantusiid CG "UCMP 150827 (right
maxilla fragment), 150965 (maxilla fragment), 150970...
- (Xantusiidae)".
Herpetological Review 26 (1): 15–17.
Mosauer W (1936). "A New
Xantusiid Lizard of the
Genus Lepidophyma".
Herpetologica 1: 3–5,
Plate 2. (Lepidophyma...
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Catactegenys is an
extinct genus of
xantusiid lizard from the Late
Cretaceous of Texas. The type species,
Catactegenys solaster, was
named in 2013 from...
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performed by Čerňanský et al. (2022),
Retinosaurus was
recovered as a Pan-
xantusiid. Most
phylogenies resulted with
Retinosaurus as a
sister taxon to a clade...
- he
noticed that its
skull curiously resembled those of geckoes.
Since xantusiids and
geckoes were then
placed on the two
major recognized branches of lizards...
