Celestus crusculus (GARMAN, 1887)
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Celestus crusculus
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| Higher Taxa | Diploglossidae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | E: Jamaican Galliwasp, Garman's Galliwasp |
| Common Names | Jamaica crusculus: coastal areas of Jamaica; delineation of the range is tentative. Type locality: Kingston, Kingston Parish, Jamaica. cundalli: interior of Jamaica, at elevations of 2000 to 4000 ft.; Type locality: Mandeville, Manchester Parish, Jamaica. Delineation of the range is tentative. |
| Synonym | Diploglossus crusculus GARMAN 1887: 22 Diploglossus bakeri BOULENGER 1900 (fide BARBOUR 1910) Celestus crusculus — BARBOUR 1910: 298 Celestus crusculus crusculus — GRANT 1940: 102 Celestus crusculus cundalli GRANT 1940: 157 Celestus crusculus cundalli — GRANT 1940: 103 Diploglossus crusculus crusculus — GREER 1967 Celestus crusculus cundalli — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988 Celestus crusculus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 369 Celestus crusculus — WILSON 2011 Celestus crusculus crusculus — HEDGES et al. 2019 Celestus crusculus cundalli — HEDGES et al. 2019 Celestus crusculus cundalli — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2021 Celestus crusculus — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2021 Celestus crusculus — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2024: 49 |
| Distribution | For illustrations see Schwartz and Henderson, 1985. Synonymy: BOULENGER (1888: 9) in the Zoological Record of 1888 noted that maculatus is synonymous with striatus. The classification of C. crusculus by Schools & Hedges 2021 is inconsistent. They treated Celestus crusculus molesworthi as full species status without having DNA sequences and without further comment but left cundalli and crusculus stand as paraphyletic clades, without explicitly changing their status (although they do mention that cundalli may warrant specific status). Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. |
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| Types | photo: http://www.kingsnake.com/westindian/celestuscrusculus1.JPG |
| Diagnosis | Holotype: MCZ 6051 (crusculus) Holotype: CAS-SUR 9298, MCZ 45163 [cundalli] |
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| Etymology | 2839097 |
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