Dopasia
| Dopasia Temporal range: | |
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| Dopasia gracilis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Anguimorpha |
| Family: | Anguidae |
| Subfamily: | Anguinae |
| Genus: | Dopasia Gray, 1853 |
| Species | |
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Seven, see text | |
Dopasia is a genus of lizards in the family Anguidae. The genus contains seven species, which are native to Asia. They are most closely related to the North American Ophisaurus, and are sometimes considered part of that genus.
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Dopasia buettikoferi (Lidth De Jeude, 1905) – Buettikofer's glass lizard
- Dopasia gracilis (Gray, 1845) – Burmese glass lizard, Asian glass lizard, Indian glass snake
- Dopasia hainanensis (Yang, 1984) – Hainan glass lizard
- Dopasia harti (Boulenger, 1899) – Hart's glass lizard
- Dopasia ludovici (Mocquard, 1905) – Ludovic's glass lizard
- Dopasia sokolovi (Darevsky & Nguyen, 1983) – Sokolov's glass lizard
- Dopasia wegneri (Mertens, 1959) – Wegner's glass lizard
The Taiwanese Dopasia formosensis was synonymised with D. harti in 2003, but may represent a valid species in its own right.[2]
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Dopasia.
Fossil record
Fossils of the genus Dopasia are known from the Oligocene of Belgium and France, the Miocene of Morocco, and the Pliocene of the Balearic Islands.[3][4]
References
- ↑ Genus Dopasia at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ Lin, Si-Min; Shen, Chin-Chia; Lin, Te-En; Liang, Yu-Jhen; Chang, Wen-Hsien (2026-02-19). "Redescription and neotype designation of Dopasia formosensis (Kishida, 1930) (Squamata, Anguidae) from Taiwan". ZooKeys (1270): 69–98. Bibcode:2026ZooK.1270...69L. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1270.173752. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 12946829. PMID 41768307.
- ↑ "Fossilworks: Dopasia". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ↑ BOVER, Pere; ROFES, Juan; BAILON, Salvador; AGUSTÍ, Jordi; CUENCA-BESCÓS, Gloria; TORRES, Enric; ALCOVER, Josep Antoni (March 2014). "Late Miocene/Early Pliocene vertebrate fauna from Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean): an update". Integrative Zoology. 9 (2): 183–196. doi:10.1111/1749-4877.12049. hdl:10261/113378. ISSN 1749-4877. PMID 24673762.
Further reading
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- Gray JE (1853). "Descriptions of some undescribed species of Reptiles collected by Dr. Joseph Hooker in the Khassia Mountains, East Bengal, and Sikkim Himalaya". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 12: 386–392. (Dopasia, new genus, p. 389).