Celestus striatus GRAY, 1839
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Celestus striatus
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| Higher Taxa | Diploglossidae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Synonym | Celestus striatus GRAY 1839: 288 (see comment) Diploglossus striatus — BOULENGER 1885: 289 Diploglossus striatus — FISCHER 1888: 29 Celestus striatus — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2021 |
| Distribution | Unknown (to Gray), but most likely Jamaica |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.8.3 (photos in Schools & Hedges 2021) |
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| Comment | Synonymy: Gray’s name may be a nomen nudum. He described the species with only one word, “Silvery”, plus a definition of what he included in Celestus (see diagnosis). Conservation: Possibly extinct. Presumably, the introduction of the mongoose to Jamaica in 1872 (Hedges & Conn 2012) either severely decimated C. striatus or caused it to go extinct. This is not unexpected considering that another Jamaican species, C. occiduus, has not been seen since the 19th century, and several other Jamaican species are exceedingly rare, all attributed to the mongoose introduction (Barbour 1910; Hedges & Conn 2012, Schools & Hedges 2021). Habitat: Species of Celestus are mostly ground-adapted ecomorphs although C. duquesneyi is tree-adapted (Schools et al. 2022). Type species: Celestus striatus GRAY 1839: 288 is the type species of the genus Celestus GRAY 1839. |
| Etymology | Not defined in the original description, but a masculine noun probably from the Latin caelestis (heavenly), in reference to the “silvery” color of the type species noted by Gray (1839). |
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