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Siderolamprus rozellae (SMITH, 1942)

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Higher TaxaDiploglossidae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Rozella's Lesser Galliwasp
S: Celesto Vientre Verde 
SynonymCelestus rozellae SMITH 1942: 372
Celestus rozellae — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 195
Celestus rozellae — STUART 1963
Celestus rozellae — LINER 1994
Diploglossus rozellae — CAMPBELL 1998
Celestus rozellae — KÖHLER 2000: 41
Diploglossus rozellae — WERLER & CAMPBELL 2004
Celestus rozellae — MATA-SILVA et al. 2015
Siderolamprus rozellae — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2021 
DistributionS Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo), Guatemala, Belize (up to 1350 m)

Type locality: vicinity of Palenque, Chiapas.  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 113526 (collected by Rozella Smith) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Scale rows 31 to 33; frontal in contact with a single prefrontal; latter in contact with only anterior supraocular; 8 to 10 labials to posterior edge of supraocular; first labial not extending beyond anterior margin of naris; median loreal as long as either of the others, or longer; portion of rostral visible from above greater than its distance from second pair of internasals; sides dark with vertical light bars, in young and adults; young with a broad, dorsolateral light stripe on each side, fading and indistinguishable in adults. (Smith 1942)


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CommentDistribution: not in Yucatan state (Mexico) according to GONZÁLEZ-SÁNCHEZ et al. 2017. Has been reported for Honduras. Not listed for Honduras by KÖHLER (2000). Not listed for Honduras by WILSON & MCCRANIE (2002). 
References
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  • Aguilar-López, José Luis, Ricardo Luría-Manzano, Eduardo Pineda and Daniel Aportela. 2016. Celestus rozellae (Smith, 1942). Mexico, Veracruz. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (3): 764–766 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Campbell, J.A. 1998. Amphibians and reptiles of northern Guatemala, the Yucatán, and Belize. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, xiii + 380 pp. - get paper here
  • Casas-Andreu, G., F.R. Méndez-De la Cruz and X. Aguilar-Miguel. 2004. Anfibios y Reptiles; pp. 375–390, in A.J.M. García-Mendoza, J. Ordoñez and M. Briones-Salas (ed.). Biodiversidad de Oaxaca. Instituto de Biología, UNAM-Fondo Oaxaqueño para la Conservación de la Naturaleza-World Wildlife Fund, México, D. F.
  • Duellman, W. E. 1963. Amphibians and reptiles of the rainforest of Southern El Peten, Guatemala. Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 15: 205-49. - get paper here
  • González-Sánchez, V. H., J. D. Johnson, E. García-Padilla, V. Mata-Silva, D. L. DeSantis and L. D. Wilson. 2017. The Herpetofauna of the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 4 (2): 264–380 - get paper here
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  • Johnson, Jerry D.; Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García Padilla, and Larry David Wilson 2015. The Herpetofauna of Chiapas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (3): 272–329. - get paper here
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  • Savage, J.M. & K.R. Lips 1993. A review of the status and biogeography of the lizard genera Celestus and Diploglossus (Squamata: Anguidae), with description of two new species from Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical 41 (3b): 817-842 - get paper here
  • Savage, JM; Lips, KR; Ibáñez RD 2008. A new species of Celestus from west-central Panama, with consideration of the status of the genera of the Anguidae: Diploglossinae (Squamata). Revista de Biologia Tropical 56 (2): 845-859 - 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
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  • Stuart, L.C. 1963. A checklist of the herpetofauna of Guatemala. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan (No. 122): 1-150 - get paper here
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