Reptilia · Squamata
Celestus striatusGray, 1839
Photograph by Carlos Muñoz-Amezcua, CC BY 4.0, via GBIF
A tree-dwelling, day-active lizard from the Neotropic region, reaching 145 mm snout to vent.
No English name has been recorded for this species.
Reptilia › Squamata › Diploglossidae › Celestus
- Grows to
- 145mm
- greatest recorded
- Active
- Diurnal
- Lives up to
- 10years
- Lives
- Arboreal
Longer than 66% of all species in Diploglossidae anyone has measured.
The bar is the rank itself: its length is the share of the family this animal exceeds. The chart below is the family’s real spread, on a logarithmic scale because body length here runs from 64 to 340 mm. The solid rule is this animal. Every bar is a count of real species, and nothing on this figure is estimated.
What is known
25 sourced facts, each taken from a named scientific dataset. How to read these.
Cited from a dataset unless a row is marked otherwise.
Standing in the world
- Still living
- Extinct
The animal itself
- Limbs
- Four legs
- Venomous
- No
- Fangs
- None
- Longest recorded life
- 10years
Size
- Length snout to vent · greatest recorded
- 145mm5.75 in
- Largest female · snout to vent
- 131.5mm5.25 in
- Largest juvenile · snout to vent
- 36.5mm1.5 in
- Body mass · greatestcomputed
- 57.09g2 oz
- Body mass · adult female, meanmeasured
- 23.1g0.81 oz
1 (Schools et al. 2022, Schools and Hedges 2021; 145 mm)
snout-vent length; the source column mixes this with straight carapace length
computed from length by a family-level allometric equation, not weighed
How it lives
- Active
- Diurnal
- Where it lives
- Arboreal
- Habitat
- Forest
- Region
- Neotropic
- Highest it lives · above sea level
- 1220m
tree ecomorph (Schools et al. 2022)
Breeding
- Reproduction
- Viviparous
- Average clutch
- 6eggs
- Eggs or young per clutch
- 5–7eggs
Naming and history
- Suborder
- Sauria
- Infraorder
- Anguimoprha
- Subspecies
- No
- Described by
- Gray
- Moved to another genus · since it was first described
- No
- Described in
- 1839
- Type locality
- Unknown, but most likely Jamaica
Keeping one
No enclosure size, temperature or feeding figure is given for this species. What is recorded about the animal stays on this page above; advice on keeping one does not, because there is none to keep.
Feeding
7kJ per day
Worked out for an animal of 57 g, the heaviest recorded for Celestus striatus — so it is the top of the range, not a figure for a particular animal. Weigh yours and the number will be lower.
An upper estimate, not a feeding target, and not veterinary advice. The equation covers only what an animal burns staying alive, so a growing, gravid or recovering animal needs more — and it was measured on wild animals, which move far more than one in an enclosure. Body condition and a vet who knows the species are what a feeding decision should rest on. Where this comes from.
What nobody knows
These are not gaps in our research. No scientific dataset records them for this species — and saying so is information you cannot get from a reference that simply leaves a field out.
- — Length snout to vent · adult female mean
- — Length snout to vent · adult male mean
- — Length snout to vent · adult mean
- — Length nose to tail · greatest recorded
- — Female length · mean, nose to tail
- — Length nose to tail · adult male mean
- — Length nose to tail · adult mean
- — Largest male · snout to vent
- — Largest female · shell length
- — Largest male · shell length
- — Hatchling length · snout to vent
- — Hatchling length · nose to tail
- — Largest juvenile · shell length
- — Egg length
- — Egg width
- — Body mass · a typical adult
- — Body mass at hatching
- — Preferred body temperature · chosen in a laboratory gradient
- — Body temperature when active · measured in the wild
- — Diet
- — Eats arthropods
- — Eats vertebrates
- — Eats plant matter
- — How it hunts
- — How the young develop
- — Gestation or incubation
- — Mean clutch · smallest reported
- — Mean clutch · largest reported
- — Clutches in a year
- — Clutches a year · fewest
- — Clutches a year · most
- — First breeds from · youngest recorded
- — First breeds by · oldest recorded
- — Hatchling length · smallest recorded
- — Hatchling length · largest recorded
- — Age at first breeding · female
- — Mature from · youngest recorded
- — Mature by · oldest recorded
- — Size at maturity · smallest recorded
- — Size at maturity · largest recorded
- — Body temp in the wild · lowest mean recorded
- — Body temp in the wild · highest mean recorded
- — Colour on the back
- — Pattern on the back
- — Pupil
- — Sex decided by
- — Conservation status
- — Status assessed · the year the Red List last looked
- — Population trend
- — Red List criteria
- — Biome
- — Active season · shortest recorded
- — Active season · longest recorded
- — Density · lowest recorded
- — Density · highest recorded
- — Home range · largest recorded
- — Active in
- — Mainland or island
- — Lowest it lives · above sea level
- — Range size
Others in Diploglossidae
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This species as JSON · the whole dataset
Cite this page
The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia (2026). Celestus striatus. Retrieved 2026-09-08, from https://www.allanglescreatures.com/species/celestus-striatus
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title = {Celestus striatus},
author = {{The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://www.allanglescreatures.com/species/celestus-striatus}
}Sources
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- Catalogue of Life (dataset 3LR), used under CC BY.