Central American nighs
| Central American nighs | ||||||||||||
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Crocodile nigh ( Lepidophyma flavimaculatum ) |
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| Lepidophyminae | ||||||||||||
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| Lepidophyma | ||||||||||||
| Duméril , 1851 |
The Central American Nightshade ( Lepidophyma ) live in tropical Central America from the Mexican states of Tamaulipas and Michoacán to the Caribbean side of Panama . They are missing in the north of the Yucatan Peninsula , as well as on the Pacific coast of Guatemala and El Salvador .
Lepidophyma species have immobile eyelids that have grown together to form glasses, similar to many geckos, and have rounded pupils. The scales on the head are enlarged, the back and sides of the trunk are covered by a heterogeneous mixture of granular or larger tubercle scales. All Central American Nights are viviparous . Some species reproduce asexually through parthenogenesis , sometimes there are no males.
species
- Lepidophyma chicoasensis Alvarez & Valentin, 1988
- Lepidophyma cuicateca Canseco-Márquez, Guttierez-Mayen & Mendoza-Hernandez, 2008
- Lepidophyma dontomasi (Smith, 1942)
- Crocodile nigh ( Lepidophyma flavimaculatum Duméril, 1851)
- Lepidophyma gaigeae Mosauer , 1936
- Lepidophyma inagoi Palacios-Aguilar, Santos-Bibiano and Flores-Villela, 2018
- Lepidophyma lineri Smith, 1973
- Lepidophyma lipetzi Smith & Del Toro, 1977
- Lepidophyma lowei Bezy & Camarillo, 1997
- Lepidophyma mayae Bezy, 1973
- Lepidophyma micropholis Walker, 1955
- Lepidophyma occulor Smith, 1942
- Lepidophyma pajapanensis Werler, 1957
- Lepidophyma radula (Smith, 1942)
- Lepidophyma reticulatum Taylor, 1955
- Lepidophyma smithii Bocourt, 1876
- Lepidophyma sylvaticum Taylor, 1939
- Lepidophyma tarascae Bezy, Webb & Álvarez, 1982
- Lepidophyma tuxtlae Werler & Shannon, 1957
- Lepidophyma zongolica García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez & Aguilar-López, 2010
literature
- Jay M. Savage : Studies on the lizard family Xantusiidae. IV. The genera. Contrib. Sci., Los Angeles Co. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1963 (71): 1-38.
- Jay M. Savage: The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica. A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL et al. 2002, ISBN 0-226-73537-0 .