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Checklist General remarks: The list includes only formally described species. Newly discovered, but still unnamed species are excluded. However, unnamed species or species unassigned to species level are included, if they are the only representatives of their genus in the region. Species counts exclude extinct and introduced species. Doubtful records, typically older voucher specimens of uncertain origin, have been excluded if considered questionable, as are records based on sources considered unreliable. Note: Your comments to the checklist (omissions, errors, etc.) are welcomed, preferably if they are provided with reliable references. If possible, please attach a pdf file of the relevant reference to an email addressed to:

	Lizards (Sauria)
	= endemicEX = extinct or assumed extinct Species References  Family Xantusiidae (Night Lizards) Genus Lepidophyma (Tropical Night Lizards)   * Lepidophyma chicoasensis Sumidero Tropical Night Lizard Alvarez & Valentin 1988 Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 2002 Flores-Villela 1993 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Percino-Daniel, Cruz-Ocaña, Pozo-Ventura & Velázquez-Velázquez 2013 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Lepidophyma cuicateca Cuicatlan Tropical Night Lizard Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayen & Mendoza-Hernández 2008 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Lepidophyma dontomasi Lachiguiri Tropical Night Lizard Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 2002 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Flores-Villela 1993 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   Lepidophyma flavimaculatum Yellow-spotted Night Lizard Alvarez del Toro 1982 Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 2002 Bezy 1984 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Flores-Villela 1993 Fouquette & Rossman 1963 González, Brenis & Arrazola 2014 González-Sánchez, Johnson, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Hernández-Ordóñez, Arroyo-Rodríguez, González-Hernández, Russildi, Luna-Reyes, Martínez-Ramos & Reynoso 2015 Johnson, Ely & Webb 1976 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Köhler 2000 Lee 1996 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Pérez-Higareda & Navarro 1980 Perez-Higareda 1978b Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, Mendoza-Quijano, Cruz-Elizalde, Stephenson, Vite-Silva & Leyte-Manrique 2010 Smith 1960 Wermuth 1965 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Lepidophyma gaigeae Hidalgo Tropical Night Lizard Ahumada-Carillo 2013 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 1992 Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 2002 Bezy 1984 Dixon & Lemos-Espinal 2010 Dixon, Ketchersid & Lieb 1972 Fernández-Bodillo, Manríquez-Morán, Castillo-Cerón & Goyenechea 2016 Flores-Villela 1993 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2015 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, Mendoza-Quijano, Cruz-Elizalde, Stephenson, Vite-Silva & Leyte-Manrique 2010 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Lepidophyma inagoi Guerreran Tropical Night Lizard Palacios-Aguilar, Santos-Bibiano & Flores-Villela 2018   * Lepidophyma lineri Loxicha Tropical Night Lizard Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 2002 Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayen & Mendoza-Hernández 2008 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Lepidophyma lipetzi Malpaso Tropical Night Lizard Alvarez del Toro 1982 Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 2002 Flores-Villela 1993 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Smith & Alvarez del Toro 1977 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Lepidophyma lowei Zoogocho Tropical Night Lizard Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 1997 Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 2002 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Lepidophyma micropholis Cave Tropical Night Lizard Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 2002 Bezy 1984 Flores-Villela 1993 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Leyto-Delgado & García-Morales 2015 Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Lepidophyma occulor Jalpan Tropical Night Lizard Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 2002 Bezy 1984 Camarillo-Rangel 1993 Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayen & Mendoza-Hernández 2008 Dixon & Lemos-Espinal 2010 Fernández-Bodillo, Manríquez-Morán, Castillo-Cerón & Goyenechea 2016 Flores-Villela 1993 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, Mendoza-Quijano, Cruz-Elizalde, Stephenson, Vite-Silva & Leyte-Manrique 2010 Taylor 1952 Vite-Silva, Ramírez-Bautista & Hernández-Salinas 2010 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Lepidophyma pajapanensis Pajapan Tropical Night Lizard Aguilar-Cortés, Camarillo & Bezy 1990 Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 2002 Bezy 1984 Canseco-Márquez & Ramírez-Gonzalez 2015 Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayen & Mendoza-Hernández 2008 Flores-Villela 1993 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Perez-Higareda 1978b Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Lepidophyma radula Yautepec Tropical Night Lizard Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 1992 Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 2002 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Flores-Villela 1993 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   Lepidophyma smithii Mazatenango Tropical Night Lizard Alvarez del Toro 1982 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 2002 Bezy 1984 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Flores-Villela 1993 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Köhler 2000 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Martín-Regalado, Gómez-Ugalde & Cisneros-Palacios 2011 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Mautz & Lopez-Forment 1978 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Peterson, Canseco-Márquez, Contreras-Jiménez, Escalona-Segura, Flores-Villela, García-López, Hernandez-Baños, Jiménez-Ruiz, León-Paniagua, Amaro, Navarro-Sigüenza, Sánchez-Cordero & Willard 2004 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Lepidophyma sylvaticum Madrean Tropical Night Lizard Aguilar-Cortés, Camarillo & Bezy 1990 Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 2002 Bezy 1984 Camarillo-Rangel 1995 Canseco-Marquez, Gutierrez-Mayen & Salazar-Arenas 2000 Contreras Arquieta & Lazcano Villarreal 1995 Cruz-Elizalde & Ramírez-Bautista 2012 Dixon & Lemos-Espinal 2010 Flores-Villela 1993 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Lazcano, Banda, Castañeda, Garcia-de la Peña & Rojas 2006 Lazcano, Contreras-Lozano, Gallardo-Valdez, García del Peña & Castañeda 2009 Lazcano, Farr, Lavín-Murcio, Contreras-Lozano, Kardon, Narváez-Torres & Cháves-Cisneros 2009 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2015 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Cruz 2016 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Martin 1955 [as flavimaculatum] Martin 1958 [as flavimaculatum] Nevárez-de los Reyes, Lazcano, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Ramírez-Bautista & Cruz-Elizalde 2013 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, Mendoza-Quijano, Cruz-Elizalde, Stephenson, Vite-Silva & Leyte-Manrique 2010 Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017   * Lepidophyma tarascae Tarascan Tropical Night Lizard Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 2002 Bezy 1984 Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayen & Mendoza-Hernández 2008 Flores-Villela 1993 García-Vázquez, Hernandez-Jimenez & Pérez-Ramos 2006 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Reyes-Velasco, Hermosillo-Lopez, Grünwald & Avila-Lopez 2009 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Lepidophyma tuxtlae Tuxtlan Tropical Night Lizard Bezy & Camarillo-Rangel 2002 Bezy 1984 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Flores-Villela 1993 García-Morales, Cervantes-Burgos, Sánchez-García & García-Vazquez 2017 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017   * Lepidophyma zongolica Zongolica Mountains Tropical Night Lizard García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez & Aguilar-López 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017 Genus Xantusia (Northern Night Lizards)   * Xantusia bolsonae Bolson Night Lizard Flores-Villela 1993 Flores-Villela, Sanchez-Herrera & Bezy 1990 Gadsden, Estrada-Rodrigues & Leyva-Pacheco 2006 Leavitt, Bezy, Crandall & Sites 2007 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Gadsden-Esparza, Valdez-Lares & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Valdez-Lares, Muñiz-Martínez, Gadsden, Aguirre-León, Castañeda-Gaytán & González-Trápaga 2013 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Xantusia extorris Durangan Night Lizard Baker, Baker, Johnson & Webb 1981 Bezy & Flores-Villela 1999 Castañeda G., García-de la Peña, Lazcano & Salas-Westphal 2005 [as vigilis] Castañeda-Gaytán, Castañeda-Gaytán, Cano-Villegas & García-Vázquez 2013 Gadsden, Estrada-Rodrigues & Leyva-Pacheco 2006 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Gadsden-Esparza, Valdez-Lares & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Valdez-Lares, Muñiz-Martínez, Gadsden, Aguirre-León, Castañeda-Gaytán & González-Trápaga 2013 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Xantusia gilberti San Lucan Night Lizard Grismer 2002 Leavitt, Bezy, Crandall & Sites 2007 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   Xantusia henshawi Granite Night Lizard Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Flores-Villela 1993 Grismer 2002 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Leavitt, Bezy, Crandall & Sites 2007 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Stebbins 2003 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Xantusia jaycolei Sonora Night Lizard Bezy, Bezy & Bolles 2008 Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Xantusia sanchezi Zacatecas Night Lizard Bezy & Flores-Villela 1999 Campos, Ortega, Gonzalez & Smith 2001 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 Cruz-Sáenz, Guerrero, Lazcano & Téllez-López 2009 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Liner 2007 Reyes-Velasco, Grünwald, Jones, Price & Fisher 2012 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Xantusia sherbrookei La Poza Grande Night Lizard Bezy, Bezy & Bolles 2008 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   Xantusia wigginsi Baja California Night Lizard Bezy & Flores-Villela 1999 Grismer 2002 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Leavitt, Bezy, Crandall & Sites 2007 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013