Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Diploglossidae > Diploglossus > Diploglossus montisserratiDiploglossus montisserrati (Montserrat Galliwasp; Montisserrat Galliwasp)The Montserrat galliwasp or Montiserrat galliwasp (Diploglossus montisserrati) is a species of lizard in the Anguidae family endemic to Montserrat in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles, and is the only anguid species in the region. It can reach 180 mm snout-to-vent, with well-developed limbs. It is brown all over, with white speckling on its flanks and legs, subtle dark lines around its neck, and white scales speckled with brown on its upper mouth. |
Habitat Substrate [1] | Fossorial, Terrestrial |
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Countries |
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Biome |
Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Bahamoan-Antillean mangroves |
Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic |
Neotropic |
Mangroves |
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Caribbean shrublands |
France, United Kingdom, Dominica, St. Lucia, Netherlands |
Neotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Leeward Islands moist forests |
St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Lesser Antillean dry forests |
Grenada, St. Lucia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Caribbean Islands |
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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