Celestus macrolepis GRAY, 1845

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Higher Taxa	Diploglossidae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Celestus macrolepis GRAY 1845: 118 Celestus macrolepis — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2021 Celestus macrolepis — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2024: 73
Distribution	Unknown, possibly Jamaica Type locality: West Indies
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.3.82
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Comment	Synonymy: Celestus macrolepis was synonymized with C. occiduus by Boulenger 1885 and then largely forgotten in the literature, until its resurrection by Schools & Hedges 2021. Conservation: possibly extinct. As with Celestus striatus, the introduction of the mongoose in 1872 may have driven C. macrolepis to great rarity or extinction (Schools & Hedges 2021).
Etymology	Named after the presence of a large, seven-sided frontonasal scale purportedly representing the unusual fusion of the internasals and frontonasal (Gray 1845), after Greek makros (μακρός), long; large in size or degree, great + Greek lepis (λεπίς), scale.
References	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 Gray, J. E. 1845. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman, London: xxvii + 289 pp. - get paper here SCHOOLS, M., & HEDGES, S. B. 2024. A new forest lizard fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Diploglossidae, Celestinae). Zootaxa 5554(1): 1-306 - 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
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