Lepidophyma tarascae, the Tarascan tropical night lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Xantusiidae.

It is a small lizard found in Mexico.

[2] It is currently known from two widely-separated locations in the State of Michoacán – near Playa Mexiquillo on the Pacific coast, and inland to the north in the Sierra de Coalcomán, a northwestern sub-range of the Sierra Madre del Sur.

It inhabits forests and rocky areas.

[1]