Diploglossus millepunctatus O'SHAUGHNESSY, 1874

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Higher Taxa	Diploglossidae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Dotted Galliwasp G: Gepunktete Gallwespenschleiche
Synonym	Diploglossus millepunctatus O'SHAUGHNESSY 1874: 301 Diploglossus millepunctatus — BOULENGER 1885: 288 Celestus hancocki — SLEVIN 1928: 682 Celestus hancocki — BANNING 1933: 7 Diploglossus millepunctatus — DUNN 1939 Diploglossus millepunctatus — PETERS et al. 1970: 109 Diploglossus millepunctatus — VALENCIA-ZULETA et al. 2014 Diploglossus millepunctatus — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2021
Distribution	Colombia (incl. Valle del Cauca, Malpelo Island) Type locality: “Northwest coast of America”
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: CAS 62582
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Comment	Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	Named after Latin mille, a thousand, ten hundred and Latin punctatus, punctuated; pointed. [“...Colour dark brown, with an infinite number of minute white specks...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024)
References	Banning, Geroge Hugh 1933. Hancock Expedition to the Galapagos Islands, 1933: General Report. Bulletins of the Zoological Society of San Diego (10): 1-30 - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here Dunn, Emmett R. 1939. Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt South Pacific Expedition of 1937. Part III. — The lizards of Malpelo Island, Colombia. Notulae Naturae (4): 1-3 Good D A 1992. Clarification of the type locality of Diploglossus millepunctatus O'Shaughnessy (Squamata: Anguidae). Archives of Natural History 19 (2): 261-263. - get paper here Langner, Ch. 2019. Ich komme Dir auf die Schliche! Verkanntes Schleichenvolk – die interessanten Echsen der Familie Anguidae. Reptilia (Münster) 24 (136): 16-27 - get paper here Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here Merz, Stefan 2017. Malpelo ??? winzige Felseninsel im Pazifik. Terraria-Elaphe 2017 (4): 50-55 - get paper here O’Shaughnessy,A.W.E. 1874. A description of a new species of Scincidae in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 13: 298-301 - get paper here Peters, James A. & Donoso-Barros, Roberto 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part II. Lizards and Amphisbaenians. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 297: 293 pp. - get paper here SCHOOLS, MOLLY & S. BLAIR HEDGES 2021. Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the Neotropical forest lizards (Squamata, Diploglossidae). Zootaxa 4974 (2): 201–257 - get paper here Slevin, Joseph Richard 1928. Description of a new species of lizard from Malpelo Island. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 26 (21): 681-684 - get paper here Valencia-Zuleta A, Jaramillo-Martínez AF, Echeverry-Bocanegra A, Viáfara-Vega R, Hernández-Córdoba O, Cardona-Botero VE, Gutiérrez-Zúñiga J, Castro-Herrera F. 2014. Conservation status of the herpetofauna, protected areas, and current problems in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 8 (2): 1–18 (e87) - get paper here ZUG, G.R. 2013. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands. University of California Press, Berkeley, 306 pp. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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