Celestus duquesneyi Grant, 1940:6
Duquesney's galliwasp, Blue-tailed galliwasp, Blue-tailed forest lizard, Jamaican blue-tailed forest lizard
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1930's?
Rediscovered in 2000 or before
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
The Small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) has been found to be a serious predator of C. duquesneyi (Lewis et al. 2011), and hence is a real threat to the species' persistence.
Distribution
Jamaica
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Grant, Chapman. (1940). Notes on the reptiles and amphibians of Jamaica, with diagnoses of new species and subspecies. Jamaica To-day. London and Aylesbury: Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Ltd.
Other references:
Cousens, Peggy N. (1956). Notes on the Jamaican and Cayman Island lizards of the genus Celestus. Breviora 56: 1-6.
Hedges, S. Blair, Powell, R., Henderson, R. W., Hanson, S. and Murphy, J. C. (2019). Definition of the Caribbean Islands biogeographic region, with checklist and recommendations for standardized common names of amphibians and reptiles. Caribbean Herpetology 67: 1-53. https://doi.org/10.31611/ch.67
Henderson, R. W. and Powell, R. (2009). Natural History of West Indian Reptiles and Amphibians. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Landestoy, M., Schools, M. and Hedges, S. Blair. (2022). A new genus and species of Caribbean forest lizard (Diploglossidae; Celestinae) from southern Hispaniola. Zootaxa 5219(3): 201-226.
Lewis, Delano S., van Veen, Rick and Wilson, Byron S. (2011). Conservation implications of small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) predation in a hotspot within a hotspot: the Hellshire Hills, Jamaica. Biological invasions 13(1): 25-33.
Lynn, W. G. and Grant, Chapman. (1940). The herpetology of Jamaica. Bull. Inst. Jamaica, Sci. Ser. 1: 1-148.
Powell, R. and Henderson, R.W. 2012. Island lists of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 51(2): 85-166.
Schools, Molly and Hedges, S. Blair. (2021). Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the Neotropical forest lizards (Squamata, Diploglossidae). Zootaxa 4974(2): 201-257. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4974.2.1
Schools, Molly and Hedges, S. Blair. (2024). A new forest lizard fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Diploglossidae, Celestinae). Zootaxa 5554(1): 1-306. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5554.1.1
Schwartz, Albert. (1971). A new species of bromeliad inhabiting galliwasp (Sauria: Anguidae) from Jamaica. Breviora 371: 1-10.
Schwartz, A. and Henderson, R. W. (1991). Amphibians and reptiles of the West Indies: descriptions, distributions, and natural history. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida. 720 pp.
Wilson, B. S., Hedges, S. Blair and Gibson, R. (2017). Celestus duquesneyi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T4094A71739426. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T4094A71739426.en. Downloaded on 15 October 2017.
Wilson, B. S. and Vogel, P. (2000). A survey of the herpetofauna of the Hellshire Hills, Jamaica, including the rediscovery of the blue-tailed galliwasp (Celestus duquesneyi Grant). Caribbean Journal of Science 36(3-4): 244-249.
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