night lizard

American  

noun

1. any of several nocturnal lizards of the family Xantusiidae, of southwestern North America and Cuba, which bear live young.

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Example Sentences

Dozens of animals rely on them to survive, from ladder-backed woodpeckers who nest in their trunks to desert night lizards who sleep and forage beneath their fallen boughs.

From Los Angeles Times

Desert night lizards sleep and forage beneath their fallen boughs.

From Los Angeles Times

Among the species bound to the mesa’s crags, crevices and piñon pines are bighorn sheep, bobcats, coyotes, deer, desert night lizards, barn owls and Townsend’s long-eared bats.

From Los Angeles Times

I plugged in things like Yosemite National Park's Half Dome and was told it was "elevation," while a photo of a gecko was identified as a "night lizard."

From The Verge

Most of the island night lizards’ habitat in the Channel Islands is in federal hands: the U.S.

From Scientific American