Utah night lizard
Xantusia vigilis Baird, 1859
Status not recordedlizards
The utah night lizard (Xantusia vigilis) is a species in the family Xantusiidae, order Squamata. Recorded adults weigh 1.45 g to 1.48 g, reach 4.21 cm in length and live up to 10.9 years.
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Quick facts about the utah night lizard
- Weight
- 1.46 gsrc for Weight
- Length
- 4.21 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- 10.9 yearssrc for Lifespan
- Diet
- Carnivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- desert, shrublandsrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- 1 – 3src for Young per litter or clutch
- Age at maturity
- 2.75 years – 3 yearssrc for Age at maturity
- Litters or clutches a year
- 1src for Litters or clutches a year
- Reproduction
- Live birthsrc for Reproduction
- Active
- Day and night (cathemeral)src for Active
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- Not recorded
How big is the utah night lizard?
What eats the utah night lizard?
Species recorded in published studies and collections.
Each pair is recorded by at least two independent datasets. A record shows the animal was seen or found to have eaten the other, including scavenged carcasses and young animals; it does not say how often. Compiled by Global Biotic Interactions (CC0 1.0).
References for these records
- Food Habits of the Glossy Snake, Arizona elegans, with Comparisons to the Diet of Sympatric Long-Nosed Snakes, Rhinocheilus lecontei. 1999. Journal of Herpetology 33(1): 87-92
- Eichenwald, A. J., Fefferman, N. H., & Reed, J. M. (2024). Potential extinction cascades in a desert ecosystem: Linking food web interactions to community viability. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e10930. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10930. Accessed at <https://github.com/aeiche01/MojaveFoodWeb/archive/
Where does the utah night lizard live?
Not recorded
Is the utah 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 utah night lizard classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classReptilia
- orderSquamata
- familyXantusiidae
- genusXantusia
- SpeciesXantusia vigilis Baird, 1859
Synonyms Xantusia vigilis utahensis, Xantusia vigilis vigilis
Other names and names in other languages (15)
- Desert night lizardEnglish
- Desert night lizard [vigilis]English
- Sierra night lizard [sierrae]English
- Utah night lizard [utahensis]English
- Yucca night lizardEnglish
- xantusie pouštníCzech
- Ørken-natøgleDanish
- Yucca-NachtechseGerman
- Nocturna de las YucasSpanish
- Lagartija nocturna del desiertoSpanish
- Lagartija-escofina de desiertoSpanish
- 밤도마뱀Korean
- Древесная ночная ящерицаRussian
- Пустынная ночная ящерицаRussian
- cozíxojSeri
Relatives of the utah night lizard
Other species in the same genus Xantusia.
Granite night lizard
Xantusia henshawi
Island night lizard
Xantusia riversiana
Bolson night lizard
Xantusia bolsonae
Arizona night lizard
Xantusia arizonae
Bezy's night lizard
Xantusia bezyi
Sanchez night lizard
Xantusia sanchezi
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Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the utah night lizard?
An adult utah night lizard weighs 1.46 g and measures 4.21 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
How long does the utah night lizard live?
The utah night lizard has a recorded lifespan of 10.9 years.
What kind of animal is the utah night lizard?
The utah night lizard (Xantusia vigilis) belongs to the family Xantusiidae in the order Squamata.
What eats the utah night lizard?
Animals recorded preying on the utah night lizard include glossy snake. The records are compiled by Global Biotic Interactions from published studies; each pair is reported by at least two datasets.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.
- An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI): interpreted data products · CC0 1.0 · 0.11
Poelen, J.H., Simons, J.D. & Mungall, C.J. (2014) Global Biotic Interactions: an open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics 24: 148–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.08.005. Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22691479, with each record's original reference. - ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles · CC BY 4.0 · v1-2
Oskyrko, O., Mi, C., Meiri, S. et al. (2024) ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data 11: 243. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03079-5. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24572683.v4 - SquamBase 1.0 - a dataset of squamate species traits · CC0 1.0 · 1.0-dryad-v5
Meiri, S. (2024) SquamBase - a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33(4): e13812. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13812. Data: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76hdr7t3b
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