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Celestus hewardii GRAY, 1845

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Higher TaxaDiploglossidae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Heward's Galliwasp 
SynonymCelestus Hewardii GRAY 1845: 118
Diploglossus (Celestus) variegatus PETERS 1874: 370
Diploglossus hewardii — BOULENGER 1885: 291
Celestus occiduus hewardii — GRANT 1940: 106
Celestus hewardi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 374
Celestus hewardi — BAUER et al. 1995: 53
Celestus hewardi — WILSON 2011
Celestus hewardii — HEDGES et al. 2019
Celestus hewardii — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2021
Celestus hewardii — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2024: 63 
DistributionJamaica

Type locality: Jamaica

Type locality (variegatus): “unbestimmter Herkunft” [= of unknown origin].  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.8.7.88, 1946.8.7.99, and 1946.8.8.2.
Holotype: ZMB 8029 [Diploglossus (Celestus) variegatus PETERS 1874] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1032 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentReference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyNamed after Robert Heward (1791-1877) British botanist and member of the Linnean Society, London, and collector of the type. 
References
  • Bauer, A.M.; Günther,R. & Klipfel,M. 1995. The herpetological contributions of Wilhelm C.H. Peters (1815-1883). SSAR Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, 714 pp.
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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
  • Cousens, Penny Norseen 1956. Notes on the Jamaican and Cayman Island lizards of the genus Celestus. Breviora (56): 1-6 - get paper here
  • Grant, C. 1940. The herpetology of Jamaica Il. The reptiles. Bull. Inst. Jamaica., Sci. Ser. 1: 61-148.
  • 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
  • Peters, Wilhem Carl Hartwig 1874. Über einige neue Reptilien (Lacerta, Eremias, Diploglossus, Euprepes, Lygosoma, Sepsina, Ablepharus, Simotes, Onychocephalus). Monatsber. königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin. 1874 (Juni): 368-377 - 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.
  • Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - 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
 
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