Primary references

• Baird, S.F. 1859. Description of new genera and species of North American lizards in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10: 253–256. BHL

Additional references

• Papenfuss, T.J., Macey, J.R. & Schulte II, J.A. 2001. A New Lizard Species in the Genus Xantusia from Arizona. Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas 23: 1–9. hdl: 1808/25345 Reference page. 

• Vicario, S., Caccone, A. & Gauthier, J. 2003. Xantusiid “night” lizards: a puzzling phylogenetic problem revisited using likelihood-based Bayesian methods on mtDNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26(2): 243–261. DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00313-5 Reference page. 

• Sinclair, E.A., Bezy, R.L., Bolles, K., Camarillo R., J.L., Crandall, K.A. & Sites Jr., J.W. 2004. Testing Species Boundaries in an Ancient Species Complex with Deep Phylogeographic History: Genus Xantusia (Squamata: Xantusiidae). American Naturalist 164(3): 396–414. DOI: 10.1086/381404 Reference page. 

• Bezy, R.L., Bezy, K.B. & Bolles, K. 2008. Two New Species of Night Lizards (Xantusia) from Mexico. Journal of Herpetology 42(4): 680–688. JSTOR Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Xantusia . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 17 November 2021.