Celestus

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Celestus
Haitian galliwasp baby2.jpg
A young giant Hispaniolan galliwasp (Celestus warreni)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Diploglossidae
Genus: Celestus
Gray, 1839

Celestus is a genus of anguid lizards native to the West Indies containing about 31 living species.[1] Lizards from the genera Celestus and Diploglossus share the common name of galliwasps.

Species[]

  • Savage, Lips & , 2008
  • (Thomas, 1971)
  • Celestus anelpistus (Schwartz, & , 1979) – San Cristobal galliwasp[2]
  • Cope, 1868
  • Grant, 1940
  • (Cope, 1862)
  • (Garman, 1887) – Jamaican galliwasp[3]
  • Grant, 1951 – Hispaniolan khaki galliwasp[4]
  • Cope, 1894
  • Cochran, 1939
  • Celestus duquesneyi Grant, 1940 – blue-tailed galliwasp
  • (Cope, 1860)
  • Celestus fowleri (Schwartz, 1971) – bromeliad galliwasp[5]
  • (Cochran, 1927)
  • Gray, 1845 – red-spotted galliwasp[6]
  • Savage & Lips, 1993
  • Werler & Campbell, 2004
  • Lotzkat, Hertz & Köhler, 2016
  • Campbell & Camarillo, 1994
  • Thomas & Hedges, 1989 – Thomas' galliwasp
  • Garman, 1888[7][3] (subspecies of )
  • Celestus marcanoi (Schwartz & Incháustegui, 1976)
  • Celestus microblepharis (Underwood, 1959) – small-eyed galliwasp
  • Grant, 1940[3] – Portland coast galliwasp[8]
  • Celestus occiduus (Shaw, 1802) – Jamaica giant galliwasp
  • Savage & Lips, 1993
  • (H.M. Smith, 1942) – Rozella's lesser galliwasp
  • (Gray, 1852) – Hispaniolan four-toed galliwasp
  • (Cope, 1862) – Cope's galliwasp
  • Celestus warreni (Schwartz, 1970) – giant Hispaniolan galliwasp[9]

Nota bene: a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Celestus.

References[]

  1. ^ Genus Celestus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ^ "San Cristobal Galliwasp, Celestus anelpistus". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  3. ^ a b c "Celestus crusculus (Garman's Galliwasp, Jamaican Galliwasp)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  4. ^ "Celestus curtissi (Curtis' Galliwasp, Hispaniolan Khaki Galliwasp)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  5. ^ "Celestus fowleri (Bromeliad Galliwasp, Fowler's Galliwasp)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  6. ^ "Celestus hewardi (Heward's Galliwasp, Red-spotted Galliwasp)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  7. ^ "Celestus maculatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  8. ^ "Celestus molesworthi (Portland Coast Galliwasp)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  9. ^ "Celestus warreni (Giant Hispaniolan Galliwasp)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2018-06-29.


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