Diploglossus delasagra, also known as the Cuban galliwasp, the Cuban pale-necked galliwasp, or la culebrita de cuatro patas (Cuban Spanish: "the little four-legged snake"), is a species of lizard in the family Diploglossidae endemic to Cuba.
Etymology The specific name, delasagra, is in honor of Spanish botanist Ramón de la Sagra.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Diploglossus delasagra, p. 68).
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of D. delasagra is forest, but it is also found in orchards and plantations.
Description Small for the genus Diploglossus, adults of D. delasagra have a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about . A short-legged species, it is brown dorsally, dark brown to black laterally, and yellowish cream ventrally.
Reproduction D. delasagra is oviparous.
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Further reading
Cocteau [J-T], Bibron [G] (1838). "Reptiles " pp. 1–143. In: de la Sagra R (1838). Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba. Segunda Parte. Historia Natural. Tomo IV. Reptiles y Peces. Paris: Arthus Bertrand. 255 pp. ("SEINCUS [sic] DE LA SAGRA", new species, pp. 110–114 + Plate XX). (in Latin and Spanish). Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. . (Diploglossus delasagra, p. 404). Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Diploglossus delasagra, pp. 118–119).