Celestus duquesneyi

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| status = CR

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Wilson, B.S. |author-link=species:Byron S. Wilson |author2=Hedges, B. |author2-link=Stephen Blair Hedges |author3=Gibson, R. |date=2017 |title=Celestus duquesneyi |volume=2017 |page=e.T4094A71739426 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T4094A71739426.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}

| genus = Celestus

| species = duquesneyi

| authority = Grant, 1940

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Celestus duquesneyi, commonly known as Duquesney's galliwasp or the blue-tailed galliwasp,{{EMBL species|genus=Celestus|species=duquesneyi}} www.reptile-database.org. is a species of lizard in the family Diploglossidae. The species is endemic to Jamaica.

Etymology

The specific name, duquesneyi, is in honor of Douglas DuQuesnay.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Celestus duquesneyi, p. 78).

Geographic range

C. duquesneyi is found in southern Jamaica.{{cite web|title=Celestus duquesneyi |url=http://eol.org/pages/1056955/details|publisher=Encyclopedia of Life|accessdate=4 January 2013}}

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of C. duquesneyi is forest, at altitudes of {{cvt|86|–|166|m|ft}}.

Description

Moderate-sized for its genus, C. duquesneyi may attain a snout-to-vent length of almost {{cvt|10|cm|in}}.

Celestus duquesneyi

Etymology

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Habitat

Description

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