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Diploglossus fasciatus (GRAY, 1831)

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Higher TaxaDiploglossidae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Banded Galliwasp
G: Gebänderte Gallwespenschleiche
Portuguese: Briba, Calango-Coral, Calango-Liso, Cobra-de-Patas, Lagarto-Coral, Víbora 
SynonymTiliqua fasciatus GRAY 1831: 71
Euprepis fasciatus REUSS 1834: 51
Diploglossus Houttuynii COCTEAU in DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 597
Diploglossus fasciatus — BOULENGER 1885: 287
Diploglossus resplendens BARBOUR 1909: 50 (fide VANZOLINI)
Diploglossus fasciatus — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 108
Diploglossus fasciatus — DIRKSEN & DE LA RIVA 1999
Diploglossus fasciatus — PIANKA & VITT 2003: 234
Diploglossus fasciatus — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2021 
DistributionSE Brazil (Acre, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo), W Bolivia (Cochabamba, Beni, La Paz), SE Peru

Type locality: not given (fide PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH XV.126a and XV.126b
Holotype: MCZ 7286 [resplendens] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): Savage & Lips (1993) and Savage et al. (2008) distinguish Diploglossus and Celestus on the basis of the presence (Diploglossus) or absence (Celestus) of claw sheaths, respectively.


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CommentType Species: Tiliqua fasciatus is the type species of the genus Diploglossus WIEGMANN 1834. Content fide Schools & Hedges 2021 (i.e. Diploglossus s. str.): Ten species (Table 3): Diploglossus delasagra, D. fasciatus, D. garridoi, D. lessonae, D. microlepis, D. millepunctatus, D. monotropis, D. montisserrati, D. nigropunctuatus, and D. pleii.

Higher taxa: Diploglossus is here assigned to Diploglossidae based on the paraphyly with Anguidae in Zheng & Wiens 2016. Many other recent authors included the genus in Anguidae: Diploglossinae.

Synonymy: partly after BRYGOO 1987.

Habitat: Wetmorena, Sauresia are some Diploglossus are soil-adapted ecomorphs (Schools et al. 2022).

Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin fascia = band, for the dorsal cross-bands in this species.

The genus was named after Greek diplos (διπλος), double + Greek glossa (γλώσσα), tongue. ["…Διπλος, diplus, de deux sortes, et de γλοσσα, langue de deux apparences…"]. 
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