Diploglossus

Diploglossus is a genus of New World diploglossid lizards, with 20 described species, commonly known as galliwasps.[2]

Diploglossus
Diploglossus monotropis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Anguidae
Subfamily: Diploglossinae
Genus: Diploglossus
Wiegmann, 1834[1]
Species

17 recognized species, see article

Geographic range

Species of the genus Diploglossus are found in North and South America.[2]

Species

The following species are recognized as being valid.[3]

  • Diploglossus atitlanensis (H.M. Smith, 1950)
  • Diploglossus bilobatus (O'Shaughnessy, 1874) – O'Shaughnessy's galliwasp
  • Diploglossus bivittatus (Boulenger, 1895)
  • Diploglossus delasagra (Cocteau, 1838) – Cuban galliwasp
  • Diploglossus fasciatus (Gray, 1831) – banded galliwasp
  • Diploglossus garridoi Thomas & Hedges, 1998
  • Diploglossus lessonae Peracca, 1890 – Brazilian galliwasp
  • Diploglossus microlepis (Gray, 1831) – small-lipped galliwasp
  • Diploglossus millepunctatus O'Shaughnessy, 1874 – dotted galliwasp
  • Diploglossus monotropis (Kuhl, 1820) – Costa Rican rainbow stripe galliwasp
  • Diploglossus montanus (K.P. Schmidt, 1933) – mountain lesser galliwasp
  • Diploglossus montisilvestris Myers, 1973
  • Diploglossus montisserrati Underwood, 1964 – Montserrat galliwasp
  • Diploglossus nigropunctatus Barbour & Shreve, 1937 – punctuate galliwasp
  • Diploglossus owenii A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839 – Owen's galliwasp
  • Diploglossus pleii A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839 – Puerto Rican galliwasp
  • Diploglossus scansorius McCranie & Wilson, 1996

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Diploglossus.

References
  1. "Diploglossus ". Dahms Tierleben www.dahmstierleben/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/diploglossa/diploglossidae.
  2. Eol.com
  3. Genus Diploglossus at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading
  • Wiegmann AFA (1834). Herpetologia Mexicana, seu descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae, quae itineribus comitis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chr. Guil. Schiede in Museum Zoologicum Berolinense pervenerunt. Pars prima, saurorum species amplectens. Adiecto systematis saurorum prodromo, additsque multis in hunc amphibiorum ordinem observationibus. Berlin: C.G. Lüderitz. vi + 54 pp. + Plates I-X. (Diploglossus, new genus, p. 36). (in Latin).



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