Celestus costatus (COPE, 1862)

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Higher Taxa	Diploglossidae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies	Celestus costatus costatus (COPE 1862) Celestus costatus aenetergum SCHWARTZ & JACOBS 1989 Celestus costatus emys SCHWARTZ 1971 Celestus costatus saonae SCHWARTZ 1964 Celestus costatus chalcorhabdus SCHWARTZ 1964 Celestus costatus leionotus SCHWARTZ 1964 Celestus costatus nesobous SCHWARTZ 1964 Celestus costatus oreistes SCHWARTZ 1964 Celestus costatus neiba SCHWARTZ 1964 Celestus costatus psychonothes SCHWARTZ 1964 Celestus costatus melanchrous SCHWARTZ 1964
Common Names	COMMON HISPANIOLAN GALLIWASP
Synonym	Panolopus costatus COPE 1862: 494 Celestus phoxinus COPE 1868: 125 Panolopus costatus — BOULENGER 1885: 295 Diploglossus ohlendorffi FISCHER 1886 Diploglossus nuchalis BOULENGER 1898: 920 Celestus costatus — THOMAS & HEDGES 1989 Diploglossus costatus — SCHWARTZ 1964 Celestus costatus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 368 Celestus costatus — POWELL et al. 1999 Celestus costatus chalcorhabdus SCHWARTZ 1964 Diploglossus costatus chalcorhabdus SCHWARTZ 1964: 37 Celestus costatus chalcorhabdus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 94 Celestus costatus emys SCHWARTZ 1971 Diploglossus costatus emys SCHWARTZ 1971 Celestus costatus emys — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 94 Celestus costatus leionotus SCHWARTZ 1964 Diploglossus costatus leionotus SCHWARTZ 1964: 28 Celestus costatus leionotus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 95 Celestus costatus melanchrous SCHWARTZ 1964 Diploglossus costatus melanchrous SCHWARTZ 1964: 34 Celestus costatus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 95 Celestus costatus neiba SCHWARTZ 1964 Diploglossus costatus neiba SCHWARTZ 1964: 30 Celestus costatus neiba — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 95 Celestus costatus nesobous SCHWARTZ 1964 Diploglossus costatus nesobous SCHWARTZ 1964: 23 Celestus costatus nesobous — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 96 Celestus costatus oreistes SCHWARTZ 1964 Diploglossus costatus oreistes SCHWARTZ 1964: 25 Celestus costatus oreistes — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 96 Celestus costatus psychonothes SCHWARTZ 1964 Diploglossus costatus psychonothes SCHWARTZ 1964: 32 Celestus costatus psychonothes — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 96 Celestus costatus saonae SCHWARTZ 1971 Diploglossus costatus saonae SCHWARTZ 1971 Celestus costatus saonae — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988
Distribution	Hispaniola, Ile de la Tortue, Ile-a-Vache, Isla Saona, Isla Catalina, Navassa Antilles, Haiti, Dominican Republic costatus: Tiburon Peninsula in Haiti. Type locality: Near Jérémie, Département de la Grand'Anse, Haiti. aenetergum: Isla Catalinita. chalcorhabdus: extreme eastern República Dominicana. emys: Île de la Tortue. leionotus: República Dominicana, Valle de San Juan and intermontane valleys in Sierra de Neiba, east to Llanos de Azua and southern slopes of Cordillera Central. melanchrous: north-central and eastern Haiti, east to Peninsula de Samaná, República Dominicana; inland to Hato Mayor, Monte Plata, San Cristóbal, Peravia, Monseñor Nouel, and La Vega provinces. neiba: Sierra de Neiba, República Dominicana. nesobous: Île-à-Vache. oreistes: southeastern Haiti, Montagne Noire and Massif de la Selle (and associated lowlands), east into República Dominicana (Sierra de Baoruco) to east coast of Peninsula de Barahona. psychonothes: interior Cordillera Central, República Dominicana. saonae: Isla Saona. INCERTAE SEDIS: Material from north-central Haiti (Jean Bernard, Grande Rivière du Nord, Marmelade) unassigned to subspecies.
Reproduction	viviparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ 3606. Holotype: USNM 197323 [aenetergum] Holotype: MCZ 77158 [chalcorhabdus] Holotype: USNM 167300 [emys] Holotype: MCZ 77154 [leionotus] Holotype: MCZ 77157 [melanchrous] Holotype: MCZ 77155 [neiba] Holotype: MCZ 77153 [nesobous] Holotype: MCZ 74940 [oreistes] Holotype: MCZ 12457 [phoxinus] Holotype: MCZ 77156 [psychonothes] Holotype: CM 52285 [saonae]
Diagnosis
Comment	For illustrations see Fischer, 1886 (as Diploglossus ohlendorffii); Cochran, 1941 (as C. badius); Schwartz, 1964; not Mertens, 1939, or Cochran, 1941 (as C. costatus). Celestus costatus badius has been elevated to species status.
Etymology
References	Barbour, Thomas 1919. Herpetological notes. Proc. New England zool. Club 7: 7-13 - 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 Boulenger, G.A. 1898. Third report on additions to the lizard collection in the Natural History Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1898: 912-923. - get paper here Cochran, D.M. 1941. The herpetology of Hispaniola. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 177: vii + 398 pp. - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1862. On the genera Panolopus, Centropyx, Aristelliger and Sphaerodactylus. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadrelphia 13 [1861]: 494-500. - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1868. An examination of the Reptilia and Batrachia obtained by the Orton Expedition to Equador and the Upper Amazon, with notes on other species. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20: 96-140 - get paper here Fischer, J.G. 1886. Über zwei neue Eidechsen des naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg. Jahrb. wiss. Anst. Hamburg 3:1-7. - get paper here Mertens, R. 1939. Herpetologische Ergebnisse einer Reise nach der Insel Hispaniola, Westindien. Abh. senckenb. naturf. Ges. (Frankfurt) 449: 1-84. 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 Schwartz, A. 1971. A new species of bromeliad-inhabiting galliwasp (Sauria: Anguidae) from Jamaica. Breviora (371): 1-10 - get paper here Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. Schwartz,A. 1964. Diploglossus costatus Cope (Sauria: Anguidae) and its relatives in Hispaniola. Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery Sci. Publ. 13: 1-57 Schwartz,A. & JACOBS,J.F. 1989. A new subspecies of Celestus costatus (Sauria: Anguidae) from the República Dominicana. Journal of Herpetology 23 (2): 193-195 - get paper here 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
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