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Lepidophyma cuicateca CANSECO-MARQUEZ, GUTIIEREZ-MAYEN & MENDOZA-HERNANDEZ, 2008

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Higher TaxaXantusiidae (Lepidophyminae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Sunidero Tropical Night Lizard
S: Lagartija Nocturnas del Sumidero 
SynonymLepidophyma cuicateca CANSECO-MARQUEZ, GUTIIEREZ-MAYEN & MENDOZA-HERNANDEZ 2008
Lepidophyma cuicateca — JOHNSON et al. 2017 
DistributionMexico (Oaxaca)

Type locality: 1 km SE Santa María Texcatitlán, Municipality of Santa María Texcatitlán, Oaxaca, México (17.704° N, 97.062° W), 1180 m elevation.  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: MZFC 16419, adult female, on 28 July 2001 by Andrés Alberto Mendoza-Hernández (AMH-075). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Lepidophyma cuicateca is most similar to the species of the Lepidophyma gaigeae Group (sensu Bezy and Camarillo, 2002) with which it shares the following characteristics: 1) small body size, 2) absence of tubercular scales on the body, and 3) poorly differentiated caudal whorls and interwhorls. The new species differs from other members of the group, except L. gaigeae, in having the enlarged caudal whorls sep-arated by two complete rings of interwhorls (in L. dontomasi, L. lowei and L. radula, the whorls are separated dorsally by two rows of smaller interwhorls, only one of which is complete across the venter). The new species differs from L. gaigeae in having a higher number of middorsal scales between the occiput to rump (160– 161 vs. 121–155), and by having a lower number of femoral pores (21–27 vs. 31–34). Furthermore the new species is distinguished from the other species except L. lowei, in having a higher number of dorsals. 
Comment 
EtymologyThe name cuicateca is an adjetive and refers to the type locality, Cañada de Cuicatlán. 
References
  • Bezy, R. 2024. Photos of Type Specimens of Lepidophyma (Reptilia: Squamata: Xantusiidae) ResearchGate - get paper here
  • Canseco-Márquez, L., & Gutiérrrez-Mayén, M.G. 2010. Anfibios y reptiles del Valle de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán. Comisión Nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, México D.F., Mexico, 302 pp - get paper here
  • CANSECO-MARQUEZ, LUIS; GUADALUPE GUTIIEREZ-MAYEN & ANDRES ALBERTO MENDOZA-HERNANDEZ 2008. A new species of night-lizard of the genus Lepidophyma (Squamata: Xantusiidae) from the Cuicatlan Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico. Zootaxa 1750: 59-67 - get paper here
  • Johnson, J. D., L. D. Wilson, V. Mata-Silva, E. García-Padilla, and D. L. DeSantis. 2017. The endemic herpetofauna of Mexico: organisms of global significance in severe peril. Mesoamerican Herpetology 4(3): 544–620 - get paper here
  • Mata-Silva, Vicente, Jerry D. Johnson, Larry David Wilson and Elí García-Padilla. 2015. The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62 - get paper here
  • Mckay, J. Lindley; Olga Milenkaya, Christian Langner 2021. Neue Erkenntnisse zu Arealserweiterungen einiger Reptilienarten des mexikanischen Bundesstaates Oaxaca. Sauria 43 (2): 76-84
  • Noonan, Brice P.; Jennifer B. Pramuk, Robert L. Bezy, Elizabeth A. Sinclair, Kevin de Queiroz, Jack W. Sites Jr. 2013. Phylogenetic relationships within the lizard clade Xantusiidae: Using trees and divergence times to address evolutionary questions at multiple levels. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 69, Issue 1, October 2013, Pages 109–122 - get paper here
 
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