Celestus microblepharis (UNDERWOOD, 1959)
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Higher Taxa | Diploglossidae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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Common Names | E: Small-eyed Galliwasp, Tiny Eyelid Galliwasp |
Synonym | Diploglossus microblepharis UNDERWOOD 1959: 2 Celestus microblepharis — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 377 Celestus microblepharis — WILSON 2011 |
Distribution | Jamaica
Type locality: Boscobel, St. Mary, Jamaica, West Indies
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Reproduction | viviparous |
Types | Holotype: MCZ 55764 |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | For illustrations see Underwood, 1959.
Abundance: only known from the type specimen (Meiri et al. 2017). |
References |
- Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here
- Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
- Underwood G. 1959. A new Jamaican galliwasp (Sauria, Anguidae). Breviora (102): 1-13 - 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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