Lepidophyma radula

{{Short description|Species of lizard}}

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Flores-Villela, O. |date=2007 |title=Lepidophyma radula |volume=2007 |page=e.T64357A12760609 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T64357A12760609.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| taxon = Lepidophyma radula

| authority = Smith, 1942

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Lepidophyma radula, the Yautepec tropical night lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Xantusiidae. It is a small lizard found in Mexico.{{NRDB species|genus=Lepidophyma |species=radula|accessdate=20 October 2020}} It is known from only from two locations in the Valley of Oaxaca in central southern and central Oaxaca state – San Jose Manteca, five km from San Carlos Yautepec, and on the road between Mitla and Ayutla. It inhabits shrubland between 1,750 and 1,800 meters elevation.