Night Lizards

Xantusiidae sunt familia Reptilium Squamatorum, quae propter raras observationes nocturna habebatur et etiamnunc vulgo lacertilia nocturna appellatur. Duas in subfamilias dividuntur: Xantusiinas (Lepidophyma et Xantusia) et Cricosaurinas (quae Cricosaura tantum genere constat).

Bibliographia

• Vicarioa, Saverio; Cacconea, Adalgisa; Gauthier, Jacques. "Xantusiid “night” lizards: a puzzling phylogenetic problem revisited using likelihood-based Bayesian methods on mtDNA sequences." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26 (2): pp. 243–261. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00313-5.