Diploglossidae

Diploglossidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Clade:	Anguioidea
Family:	Diploglossidae
Genera
	Celestus Gray, 1839; Diploglossus Wiegmann, 1834; Ophiodes Boulenger, 1894;

Diploglossidae is a family of anguimorph lizards native to the Americas. Members of the genera Celestus and Diploglossus are known as galliwasps. They were formerly considered a subfamily of Anguidae, but genetic evidence has shown them to be less closely related to other members of Anguidae than Anniellidae is.^[1]

Species[]

The family contains the following living species, and one extinct species:^[2]

Genus Celestus[]

Savage, Lips & , 2008
(Thomas, 1971)
Celestus anelpistus (Schwartz, & , 1979)
Cope, 1868
Grant, 1940
(Boulenger, 1895)
Celestus carraui (, 1985)
(Cope, 1862)
(Garman, 1887)
Grant, 1951
Cope, 1894
Cochran, 1939
Celestus duquesneyi Grant, 1940
(Cope, 1860)
Celestus fowleri (Schwartz, 1971)
(Cochran, 1927)
Gray, 1845
Savage & Lips, 1993
Thomas & Hedges, 1989
Celestus marcanoi (Schwartz & Incháustegui, 1976)
Celestus microblepharis (Underwood, 1959)
(K.P. Schmidt, 1933)
Celestus occiduus (Shaw, 1802) - (extinct)
Savage & Lips, 1993
(H.M. Smith, 1942)
McCranie & Wilson, 1996
(Gray, 1852)
(Cope, 1862)
Celestus warreni (Schwartz, 1970)

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

Genus Diploglossus[]

(H.M. Smith, 1950)
(O'Shaughnessy, 1874) – O'Shaughnessy's galliwasp
(Cocteau, 1838) – Cuban galliwasp
(Gray, 1831) – banded galliwasp
Thomas & Hedges, 1998
& Campbell, 2004
Campbell & , 1994 – Campbell's galliwasp
Diploglossus lessonae Peracca, 1890 – Brazilian galliwasp
(Hallowell, 1856) – smallhead galliwasp
(Gray, 1831) – small-lipped galliwasp
Diploglossus millepunctatus O'Shaughnessy, 1874 – dotted galliwasp
(Kuhl, 1820) – Costa Rican rainbow stripe galliwasp
Myers, 1973
Diploglossus montisserrati Underwood, 1964 – Montserrat galliwasp
Barbour & Shreve, 1937 – punctuate galliwasp
A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839 – Owen's galliwasp
A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839 – Puerto Rican galliwasp

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

Genus Ophiodes[]

References[]

^ Burbrink, Frank T; Grazziotin, Felipe G; Pyron, R Alexander; Cundall, David; Donnellan, Steve; Irish, Frances; Keogh, J Scott; Kraus, Fred; Murphy, Robert W; Noonan, Brice; Raxworthy, Christopher J (2020-05-01). Thomson, Robert (ed.). "Interrogating Genomic-Scale Data for Squamata (Lizards, Snakes, and Amphisbaenians) Shows no Support for Key Traditional Morphological Relationships". Systematic Biology. 69 (3): 502–520. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz062. ISSN 1063-5157. PMID 31550008.
^ The Reptile Database.

External links[]

"Celestus". The Reptile Database. http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?genus=Celestus&submit=Search
"Diploglossus". The Reptile Database. http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?genus=Diploglossus&submit=Search

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[1] Burbrink, Frank T; Grazziotin, Felipe G; Pyron, R Alexander; Cundall, David; Donnellan, Steve; Irish, Frances; Keogh, J Scott; Kraus, Fred; Murphy, Robert W; Noonan, Brice; Raxworthy, Christopher J (2020-05-01). Thomson, Robert (ed.). "Interrogating Genomic-Scale Data for Squamata (Lizards, Snakes, and Amphisbaenians) Shows no Support for Key Traditional Morphological Relationships". Systematic Biology. 69 (3): 502–520. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz062. ISSN 1063-5157. PMID 31550008.

[2] The Reptile Database.

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