Caribicus darlingtoni (COCHRAN, 1939)

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Higher Taxa	Diploglossidae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Hispaniolan Striped Galliwasp, Darlington's Galliwasp
Synonym	Celestus darlingtoni COCHRAN 1939: 2 Celestus darlingtoni — COCHRAN 1941 Celestus darlingtoni — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 372 Celestus darlingtoni — POWELL et al. 1999 Caribicus darlingtoni — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2021: 218
Distribution	Hispaniola (Cordillera Central in the Dominican Republic) Antilles Type locality: Valle Nuevo, in the Cordillera Central southeast of Constanza, elevation 6000 ft.-8000 ft., La Vega Provinee, República Dominicana.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ 44374.
Diagnosis
Comment	For illustrations see Cochran, 1941. Type species: Celestus darlingtoni COCHRAN 1939: 2 is the type species of the genus Caribicus SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2021. Content: Caribicus anelpistus, C. darlingtoni, C. warreni. Habitat: Species of Caribicus are mostly ground-adapted ecomorphs (Schools et al. 2022).
Etymology	The generic name (Caribicus gen. nov.) is a masculine noun derived from the name for the region (Caribbean) in which it occurs and the suffix -icus (“belonging to”). Named after Dr. Philip Jackson Darlington Jr. (1904-1983), an evolutionary biologist, zoogeographer, and beetle taxonomist.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Cochran, D.M. 1939. Diagnoses of three new lizards and a frog from die Dominican Republic. Proc. New England Zoöl. Club 18: 1-3. Cochran, D.M. 1941. The herpetology of Hispaniola. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 177: vii + 398 pp. - get paper here Powell, Robert; José A. Ottenwalder and Sixto J. Incháustegui 1999. The Hispaniolan Herpetofauna: Diversity, Endemism, and Historical Perpectives, with Comments on Navassa Island. In Crother, Caribbean Amphibians and Reptiles, Academic Press, pp. 93-168 - get paper here Schools, M., Kasprowicz, A., & Hedges, S. B. 2022. Phylogenomic data resolve the historical biogeography and ecomorphs of Neotropical forest lizards (Squamata, Diploglossidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107577 - 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 Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. Thomas, R. and S. B. Hedges. 1989. A new Celestus (Sauria: Anguidae) from the Chaine de Ia Selle of Haiti. Copeia 1989 (4): 886-891 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Coeranoscincus… http://lamington.nrsm.uq.edu.au/docs/Rept/Coe.htm Google images

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