Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Anguidae > Ophisaurus > Ophisaurus ventralisOphisaurus ventralis (Eastern Glass Lizard)Synonyms: Anguis ventralis; Opheosaurus ventralis; Ophisaurus punctatus; Ophisaurus striatulus; Ophisaurus ventralis var. a-e Ophisaurus ventralis, the eastern glass lizard, is a legless lizard species found in the Southeastern United States. |
| Adult Weight [1] | 24 grams | | Female Weight [1] | 15 grams |  | | Gestation [1] | 53 days | | Litter Size [1] | 8 | | Litters / Year [1] | 1 | | Maximum Longevity [3] | 15 years | | Reproductive Mode [2] | Oviparous | | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 10 inches (26 cm) | | | Habitat Substrate [2] | Cryptic, Fossorial |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Big Cypress National Preserve |
V |
732120 |
Florida, United States |
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Canaveral National Seashore |
II |
9090 |
Florida, United States |
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore |
II |
21476 |
North Carolina, United States |
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Cape Lookout National Seashore |
II |
18379 |
North Carolina, United States |
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Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
8964 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve |
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310228 |
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, United States |
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Cumberland Island National Seashore |
II |
20629 |
Georgia, United States |
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Fort Caroline National Memorial |
III |
137 |
Florida, United States |
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Fort Matanzas National Monument |
III |
269 |
Florida, United States |
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Fort Pulaski National Monument |
V |
4213 |
Georgia, United States |
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Gulf Island National Seashore |
II |
67487 |
Florida, Mississippi, United States |
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Hot Springs National Park |
II |
5740 |
Arkansas, United States |
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Jean Lafitte National Hist. Park & Preserve National Historical Park |
II |
17686 |
Louisiana, United States |
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Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve (Natn'l Park) National Park |
II |
51235 |
Kentucky, United States |
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Moores Creek National Battlefield |
III |
100 |
North Carolina, United States |
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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
38256 |
Florida, United States |
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South Atlantic Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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20317 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
26618 |
Alabama, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan 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 ♦ 2Meiri, 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 ♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London 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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