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Ophisaurus attenuatus (Slender Glass Lizard; glass lizard)

Synonyms: Ophisaurus ventralis var. sulcatus

Wikipedia Abstract

The slender glass lizard, (Ophisaurus attenuatus) is a legless lizard which can attain a length of up to 1 metre. Two subspecies are recognised.
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Infraspecies

Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Western slender glass lizard)
Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus (Eastern slender glass lizard)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  29 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1 grams
Female Weight [2]  17 grams
Gestation [2]  55 days
Litter Size [2]  8
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  15 years
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  9 inches (23 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Meiri, 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
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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