Granite Night Lizard vs. Desert Night Lizard
Both live on the desert slopes of the Peninsular Ranges; their records overlap there. A: Big, round, well-spaced dark spots on pale cream or grey in the Granite Night Lizard; many small black spots on olive, grey or tan in the Desert Night Lizard. The Granite Night Lizard is bigger and very flat and lives in the cracks of granite boulders; the Desert Night Lizard lives under dead yucca and Joshua tree limbs.
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