Comptus stenurus (COPE, 1863)
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Comptus stenurus
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| Higher Taxa | Diploglossidae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Hispaniolan Keeled Galliwasp, Cope's Galliwasp |
| Synonym | Diploglossus stenurus COPE 1863 (1862): 188 Celestus stenurus — COPE 1879: 272 Diploglossus stenurus stenurus — SCHWARTZ 1964: 8 Celestus stenurus stenurus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988 Celestus stenurus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 378 Comptus stenurus — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2021 |
| Distribution | Tiburon Peninsula in Haiti; Île-à-Vache; intergrades with C. s. weinlandi in Port-au-Prince area. Type locality: Near Jérémie, Département de la Grand'Anse, Haiti. INCERTAE SEDIS: Material from Île Grande Cayemite and Jacmel, as well as interior Haiti near Mirebalais, unassigned subspecifically. |
| Reproduction | ovoviviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MCZ 3612 |
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| Comment | For illustrations see Boulenger, 1885 (as Diploglossus striatus); Cochran, 1941 (as C.costatus); Grant, 1951 (as C. costatus); Schwartz, 1964 d. Synonymy: Cochran (1941) synonymized Comptus stenurus with Panolopus costatus, along with numerous other species; however, this taxonomic action was not retained in later works (Schwartz 1970). Subspecies: previous subspecies have been elevated to full species or synonymized with C. weinlandi. Similar species: Comptus stenurus and C. weinlandi cannot be distinguished based on morphological characters; however, both of these species are morphologically distinct from their closest relatives (C. arboreus and C. alloeides, respectively). (Schools & Hedges 2024) Type species: Diploglossus stenurus COPE 1862 (1863): 188 is the type species of the genus Comptus SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2021. Content. Three species: Comptus badius, C. maculatus, and C. stenurus. Type species: Celestus striatus is the type species of the genus Celestus GRAY 1838: 288 (fide PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970). Content (Cestesus s. str., fide Schools & Hedges 2021): 11 species: Celestus barbouri, C. crusculus, C. duquesneyi, C. fowleri, C. hewardii, C. macrolepis, C. macrotus, C. microblepharis, C. molesworthi, C. occiduus, and C. striatus. Higher taxa: Celestus is here assigned to Diploglossidae based on the paraphyly within Anguimorpha in Zheng & Wiens 2016. Most other recent authors included the genus in Anguidae: Diploglossinae. Conservation: While SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2021 considered Celestus striatus to be a valid species, it’s possible that the species has already gone extinct. Habitat: Comptus and Panolopus have both ground and tree-adapted ecomorphs (Schools et al. 2022). Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. |
| Etymology | Named after Greek stenos = narrow, and possibly Greek oura = tail, for the relatively thin tail, Latinized to stenurus. The genus was named after Latin cōmptus, perfect passive participle of cōmō (“arrange; dress”). It is a masculine noun that means "adornment" or "ornamental". As an adjective it mean adorned, ornamented, or having been adorned. It is used both as a generic name and a species epithet (e.g. in Geophis incomptus and Ophisaurus incomptus). |
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