Dopasia gracilis (Asian Glass Lizard)

The common name of this Skink Lizard in English is commonly called Asian Glass Lizard, Burmese Glass Lizard, Indian Glass Snake and Thai name called กิ้งก่างู (Ging-gaa Ngoo).

Dopasia gracilis, Asian Glass Lizard, กิ้งก่างู
Source: iNaturalist.org; Dopasia gracilis (Gray, 1845) observed in Thailand. Photo by Binturong27. (CC BY-NC)

กิ้งก่างู : Dopasia gracilis (Gray, 1845)

Dopasia gracilis is a species of the Glass Lizard Genus (Dopasia) within the Subfamily Anguinae, in the Anguid Lizard Family (Anguidae), Superfamily Diploglossa, in the Lizard and Snake Order (Squamata), in the Reptile Class (Reptilia), in the Chordate Phylum (Chordata) in the Animal Kingdom (Animalia).

Published in Gray, J. E. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman, London: xxvii + 289 pp. (1845).

The specific epithet "gracilis" Latin , meaning small or lanky, or gracile.

Type locality: Khasi Hills, [now in Meghalaya] India (Brygoo 1987).

Diagnosis

Maximum SVL 208 mm; ear opening greater than nostril; nasal separated from frontonasal by 3 (rarely 2) scales; dorsal scales strongly keeled; longitudinal scale rows between lateral folds 14–18; scales along lateral fold 81–97; vertebrae from atlas to hind limb bones 47–52; two dark stripes present on each side of body: dorsolateral stripe from one head-length behind ear opening to tail tip, progressively broader posteriorly; ventrolateral stripe narrower but more distinct than dorsolateral stripe (Campden-Main 1970, Brygoo 1987, Lin et al. 2003, pers. obs.) (Figs. 1, 4A in NGUYEN et al. 2011).

Synonym

  • Pseudopus gracilis John Edward Gray (1845)
  • Ophiseps tessellatus Edward Blyth (1853)
  • Pseudopus gracilis John Anderson (1871)
  • Ophisaurus gracilis George Albert Boulenger (1885)
  • Ophisaurus gracilis Malcolm Arthur Smith (1935)
  • Ophisaurus gracilis Heinz Wermuth (1969)
  • Ophisaurus gracilis Indraneil Das (1996)
  • Ophisaurus gracilis Merel J. Cox et al. (1998)
  • Ophisaurus gracilis Vladimir V. Bobrov (2008)
  • Dopasia gracilis Truong Quang Nguyen et al. (2011)
  • Ophisaurus gracilis Werner Kästle et al. (2013)
  • Ophisaurus gracilis Tanya Chan-Ard et al. (2015)