Celestus microblepharis (UNDERWOOD, 1959)

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Higher Taxa	Diploglossidae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Small-eyed Galliwasp, Tiny Eyelid Galliwasp, Small-eyed Forest Lizard
Synonym	Diploglossus microblepharis UNDERWOOD 1959: 2 Celestus microblepharis — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 377 Celestus microblepharis — WILSON 2011 Celestus microblepharis — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2021 Celestus microblepharis — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2024: 83
Distribution	Jamaica Type locality: Boscobel, St. Mary, Jamaica, West Indies
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ 55764
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Comment	For illustrations see Underwood, 1959. Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	Named after the Greek micros (= small) and Greek blepharis (βλεφαρίς), an eyelash, or Greek blepharon = eyelid.
References	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 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 Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. Underwood G. 1959. A new Jamaican galliwasp (Sauria, Anguidae). Breviora (102): 1-13 - get paper here Wilson, Byron S. 2011. Conservation of Jamaican amphibians and reptiles. In: Hailey et al., eds, Conservation of Caribbean Island Herpetofaunas Volume 2: 273-310 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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