Lepidophyma

Crocodile night lizard ( Lepidophyma flavimaculatum )

The Central American Night lizards ( 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, and on the Pacific coast of Guatemala and El Salvador.

As the only lizards America they have no moving eyelids and vertical, elliptical pupils. The scales on the head are enlarged, the back and the sides of the fuselage are of a heterogeneous mixture of granulated and provided with larger tubercles covered shed. All Central American Night lizards are viviparous. Some species reproduce asexually by parthenogenesis, in part, there are no males.

Species

• Lepidophyma chicoasensis Alvarez & Valentin 1988
• Lepidophyma dontomasi Smith 1942
• Crocodile night lizard ( Lepidophyma flavimaculatum ) Duméril 1851
• Lepidophyma gaigeae Mosauer 1936
• 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 Werl 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 Werl & Shannon 1957