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Sanchez night lizard

Xantusia sanchezi Bezy & Flores-Villela, 1999

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The sanchez night lizard (Xantusia sanchezi) is a species in the family Xantusiidae, order Squamata. Recorded adults weigh about 2.41 g and reach 5 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Mexico.

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Quick facts about the sanchez night lizard

Weight
2.41 gsrc for Weight
Length
5 cmsrc for Length
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Carnivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
3src for Young per litter or clutch
Reproduction
Live birthsrc for Reproduction
Active
At night (nocturnal)src for Active
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

How big is the sanchez night lizard?

SANCHEZ NIGHT LIZARD · LENGTH 5 CMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 5 cm, the recorded maximum length of the sanchez night lizard is about 2.9% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does the sanchez night lizard live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The sanchez night lizard is listed for 1 country.

Mexico
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Mexico

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ReptileDB (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

Is the sanchez night lizard endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the sanchez night lizard classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classReptilia
  4. orderSquamata
  5. familyXantusiidae
  6. genusXantusia
  7. SpeciesXantusia sanchezi Bezy & Flores-Villela, 1999
Other names and names in other languages (4)
  • Sanchez's night lizardEnglish
  • Zacatecas night lizardEnglish
  • Nocturna de SanchezSpanish
  • Lagartija nocturna de la Sierra Madre OccidentalSpanish

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISWikidata

Relatives of the sanchez night lizard

Other species in the same genus Xantusia.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the sanchez night lizard?

An adult sanchez night lizard weighs 2.41 g and measures 5 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the sanchez night lizard live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the sanchez night lizard for 1 country: Mexico. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the sanchez night lizard?

The sanchez night lizard (Xantusia sanchezi) belongs to the family Xantusiidae in the order Squamata.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Sanchez night lizard (Xantusia sanchezi). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/sanchez-night-lizard

MLA

“Sanchez night lizard (Xantusia sanchezi).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/sanchez-night-lizard.

BibTeX
@misc{sanchez_night_lizard_2026,
  title = {Sanchez night lizard (Xantusia sanchezi)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/sanchez-night-lizard},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}