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Skinks are a type of lizard belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different ...
Crepuscular, a classification of animals that are active primarily during twilight, making them similar to nocturnal animals. Diurnality, plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day and sleeping at night. Cathemeral, a classification of organisms with sporadic and random intervals of activity during the day or night.
The night skink, nocturnal desert-skink or striated egernia (Liopholis striata) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to western Australia . [ 2 ]
The wildlife photographer embarks on night safaris to seek out Hong Kong’s nocturnal animals.
The distinction is not absolute, because crepuscular animals may also be active on a bright moonlit night or on a dull day. Some animals casually described as nocturnal are in fact crepuscular. [2] Special classes of crepuscular behaviour include matutinal, or "matinal", animals active only in the dawn, and vespertine, only in the dusk.
Skinks (Scincidae) are one of the most diverse families of lizards. Includes skinks or skinks. It belongs to the superfamily or infraorder Scincomorpha, which also includes the true lizards (Lacertidae). The Scincidae family has a global distribution and consists of 1578 species. 32 species occur in Mexico. Mesoscincus altamirani (Dugès, 1891)
Scincomorpha is an infraorder and clade of lizards including skinks (Scincidae) and their close relatives. These include the living families Cordylidae (girdled lizards), Gerrhosauridae (plated lizards), and Xantusiidae (night lizards), as well as many extinct taxa.
Night lizards were originally thought to be nocturnal because of their secretive lifestyle, but they are at least in some cases diurnal.Night lizards have evolved to live in very narrow environmental niches—"microhabitat specialization"—such as rock crevices or damp logs, and may spend their entire life under the same cover.