Celestus

{{Short description|Genus of lizards}}

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| image = Celestus occiduus museum specimen.jpeg

| image_caption = Jamaican giant galliwasp (C. occiduus)

| taxon = Celestus

| authority = Gray, 1839

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

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Celestus is a genus of diploglossid lizards mostly endemic to Jamaica (aside from a single species endemic to Haiti) and containing about 11 species, though three of these may be extinct. They are commonly known as galliwasps although the origin of this name is unclear. Formerly, this genus had more than 31 species, but a 2021 phylogenetic study found this classification to be paraphyletic and split those species into their own genera.{{Cite web |title=Search results {{!}} The Reptile Database |url=https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?genus=Celestus&submit=Search |access-date=2022-08-02 |website=reptile-database.reptarium.cz}}{{Cite journal |last1=Schools |first1=Molly |author-link=species:Molly Schools |last2=Hedges |first2=S. Blair |author2-link=Stephen Blair Hedges |date=2021 |title=Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the Neotropical forest lizards (Squamata, Diploglossidae) |url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4974.2.1 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4974 |issue=2 |pages=201–257 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4974.2.1 |pmid=34186858 |issn=1175-5334|url-access=subscription }} A more recent study found that several ecomorphs exist on Jamaica including a swamp ecomorph, a tree ecomorph, and a ground ecomorph.{{Cite journal |last1=Schools |first1=Molly |last2=Kasprowicz |first2=Adrienne |last3=Hedges |first3=S. Blair |date=2022 |title=Phylogenomic data resolve the historical biogeography and ecomorphs of Neotropical forest lizards (Squamata, Diploglossidae) |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |language=en |volume=175 |pages=107577 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107577 |issn=1055-7903|doi-access=free |pmid=35835424 }}