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Taxonomy of the genus Ophisaurus Biodiversity of the family Anguidae

Bibliography of the genus
Ophisaurus (North American Glass Lizards)

(Reptilia: Sauria: Anguidae)

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Ophisaurus in general

Allen, E.R.; Neill, W.T. 1957. The "glass-snake", a legless lizard. Florida Wild Life 1952 [1957]: 9.

Bartlett, R.D. 2001. Thoughts on a few ophisaurs. Reptile & Amphibian Hobbyist 6(8): 46-52.

Brygoo, E.R. 1987. Les Ophisaurus (Sauria, Anguidae) d'Asie orientale. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Section A Zoologie Biologie et Ecologie Animales 9(3): 727-752.

Cliburn, J.W. 1957. Leaping ability of the glass lizard. Herpetologica 13: 24.

Darevsky, I.S.; Nguyen, V.S. 1983. [New and little known lizard species from Vietnam]. (In Russian, English summary). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 62(12): 1827-1837.

Edmonds, L. 1992. Glass "snakes". Tropical Fish Hobbyist 41(3): 104, 106, 108, 110-111.

Holman, J.A. 1971. Ophisaurus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 110: 1-3.

Hoser, R.T. 2014. A logical new genus-level taxonomy for the Xenosauridae, Anniellidae, Diploglossidae and Anguidae (Squamata: Sauria). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 24: 20-64.

McConkey, E.H. 1954. A systematic study of the North American lizards of the genus Ophisaurus. American Midland Naturalist 51(1): 133-171.

Neill, W.T. 1949. Forms of Ophisaurus in the south-eastern United States. Herpetologica 5(4): 97-100.

Noble, G.K.; Mason, E.R. 1933. Experiments on the brooding habits of the lizards Eumeces and Ophisaurus. American Museum Novitates 619: 1-29.

Valdez Villavicencio, J.H.; García, A.P.; Padilla, E.G.; García, J.A. 2017. Lagartija sin patas de México. Reptiles vulnerables y poco conocidos. Biodiversitas 133: 12-16.

Ophisaurus attenuatus

Anonymous. 1965. The slender grass snake. Living Museum 27: 411, 414.

Blair, A.P. 1961. Notes on Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Anguidae). Southwestern Naturalist 6: 201.

Butterfield, B.P.; Trauth, S.E.; Steward, T.W.; McDaniel, V.R.; McLarty, P. 1991. New county records of amphibians and reptiles from Texas. Herpetological Review 22(1): 28.

Camposano, B.J.; Smith, E.A. 2014. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus (Slener Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 45(2): 283.

Cobb, V.A. 2012. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus (Eastern Slender Glass Lizard). USA: Tennessee: Fentress Co. Herpetological Review 43(4): 619.

Coleman, A.W.; Sievert, G. 2015. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 46(4): 570.

Collins, J.T. 1962. Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus McConkey in Kentucky. Herpetologica 18: 206.

Collins, J.T. 1995. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 26(2): 109.

Connior, M.B. 2016. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus (Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 47(4): 629.

Crump, P.; Rommel, R.; Pate, H. 2010. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). USA: Texas. Herpetological Review 41(3): 378.

Dowling, H.G. 1956. Geographic relations of Ozarkian amphibians and reptiles. Southwestern Naturalist 1(4): 174-189.

Edmonds, L. 1992. Glass "snakes". Tropical Fish Hobbyist 41(3): 104, 106, 108, 110-111.

Enge, K.M. 1994. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus (Eastern Slender Glass Lizard). USA: Florida: Baker Co. Herpetological Review 25(4): 165.

Fitch, H.S. 1989. A field study of the Slender Glass Lizard, Ophisaurus attenuatus, in northeastern Kansas. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History University of Kansas 125: 1-50.

Fitch, H.S. 1989. A field study of the slender glass lizard, Ophisaurus attenuatus, in northeastern Kansas. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History University of Kansas 125: 1-50.

Fitch, H.S. 2003. A comparative study of loss and regeneration of lizard tails. Journal of Herpetology 37(2): 395-399.

Franklin, C.J. 2005. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus (Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 36(2): 202.

Frese, P.W. 2003. Natural history notes: Tallgrass prairie amphibian and reptile assemblage. Fire mortality. Herpetological Review 34(2): 159-160.

Frick, M.G. 1997. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus (Eastern Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 28(2): 97.

Gerald, G.W. 2005. Natural history notes: Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus (Slender Glass Lizard). Clutch size and brooding. Herpetological Review 36(2): 181-182.

Gerald, G.W.; Graziano, M.P.; Thiesen, K.E. 2013. Herpetoculture notes: Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). Death feigning. Herpetological Review 44(1): 93-94.

Gerald, G.W.; Torres, L.E.; Lamb, J.W.; Wyckoff, G.R. 2006. Natural history notes: Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus (Eastern Slender Glass Lizard). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 37(4): 470.

Gulsby, M.L.; McElroy, T. 2018. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus (Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 49(4): 715-716.

Hibbitts, T. 1991. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 22(2): 66.

Hill, E.P.; Mays, J.D.; Enge, K.M. 2016. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus (Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 47(1): 81.

Holman, J.A. 1971. Ophisaurus attenuatus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 111: 1-3.

Holt, B.D.; Carr, K. 2014. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus (Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 45(4): 660.

Holt, B.D.; Shelton-Nix, E. 2016. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus (Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 47(2): 258-259.

Huheey, J.E.; Stupka, A. 1965. Herpetological records from the Great Smoky Mountains. Herpetologica 21: 148-150.

Johnson, C.R.; Voigt, W.G. 1978. Observations on thermoregulation in the western slender glass lizard, Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Sauria: Anguidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 63(3): 305-307.

Johnson, J.D.; LaDuc, T.J. 1994. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 25(1): 33.

Karges, J.P. 1978. Texas amphibians and reptiles: some new distributional records, part 1. Herpetological Review 9(4): 143-145.

Killebrew, F.C. 1985. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 16(1): 31.

Kopachena, J.G.; Kollar, C.S. 1999. A herpetological survey of three old-field sites at Cooper Lake in northeast Texas. Texas Journal of Science 51(3): 211-224.

Lardie, R.L. 1999. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 30(2): 110.

Lardie, R.L. 2001. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 32(2): 120.

Lodato, M.J. 1983. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus. Herpetological Review 14(4): 123.

McConkey, E.H. 1952. A new subspecies of Ophisaurus attenuatus, with a key to the North American forms. Natural History Miscellanea 102: 1-2.

Montgomery, W.B. 2000. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 31(2): 113.

Oyervides, M.; Petty, J.D. 2015. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 46(3): 384

Palmer, W.M. 1988. Rediscovery of the holotype of Ophisaurus ventralis sulcatus (Cope). Herpetological Review 19(1): 9.

Robison, H.W. 2006. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 37(4): 495.

Schmidt, C.J. 2004. Ophisaurus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). Journal of Kansas Herpetology 11: 13.

Smith, C. 1994. A behavior resembling "death-feigning" in the Eastern Slender Glass Lizard, Ophisaurus longicaudus. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 30(3): 107.

Spadgenske, E.W.; Trent, J.A.; Soehren, E.C.; Fitch, R.C. 2014. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus (Eastern Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 45(4): 660.

Stains, H.J. 1954. A Westward extension of the known geographic range of the glass lizard, Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus Baird, in South-Central Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 57: 482.

Taggart, T.W. 1991. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 22(2): 66.

Taggart, T.W. 2004. Ophisaurus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). Journal of Kansas Herpetology 11: 13.

Thomas, R.A. 1974. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus. USA: Virginia: Powhatan Co. Herpetological Review 5(1): 20.

Todd, R.E. 1984. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus (Eastern Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 15(2): 52.

Todd, R.E.; Monroe, B. 1983. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus (Eastern Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 14(1): 28.

Trauth, S.E. 1984. Seasonal incidence and reproduction in the western slender grass lizard, Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Reptilia, Anguidae), in Arkansas. Southwestern Naturalist 29(3): 271-275.

Trauth, S.E. 1986. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 17(3): 65.

Trauth, S.E. 1988. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus (Western Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 19(1): 19.

Walley, H.D.; Levell, J. 1992. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus (Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 23(1): 26.

Ward, R. 1982. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus attenuatus (Slender Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 13(3): 80-81.

Wass, E.D.; Gerald, G.W. 2017. Performance and kinematics of saltation in the limbless lizard Ophisaurus attenuatus (Squamata: Anguidae). Phyllomedusa 16(1): 81-87.

Wright, R.A.S. 1996. Ophiosaurus attenuatus (Eastern Slender Glass Lizard). Catesbeiana 16(1): 12.

Ophisaurus ceroni

Casas-Andreu, G.; Guzman, S.; Camarillo, J.L. 1996. Notas sobre la distribucion e historia natural de Ophisaurus ceroni (Sauria: Anguidae) de Veracruz, Mexico. Anales del Instituto de Biologia Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Serie Zoologia 67(1): 157-162.

Holman, J.A. 1965. A new glass lizard from Veracruz, Mexico. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 27: 311-315.

Holman, J.A. 1966. A second specimen of Ophisaurus ceroni. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 29: 43-46.

Holman, J.A. 1966. Caudal vertebrae of the Veracruz glass lizard, Ophisaurus ceroni. Southwestern Naturalist 11: 299-300.

Holman, J.A. 1971. Ophisaurus ceroni. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 112: 1.

Ophisaurus compressus

Bartlett, R.D. 1985. Notes on the natural history and reproductive strategy of the island glass lizard, Ophisaurus compressus. British Herpetological Society Bulletin 11: 19-21.

Durso, A.M.; Mitchell, T.S.; Reedy, A.M.; Warner, D.A. 2013. Natural history notes: Ophisaurus compressus (Island Glass Lizard). Swimming. Herpetological Review 44(1): 146.

Edmonds, L. 1992. Glass "snakes". Tropical Fish Hobbyist 41(3): 104, 106, 108, 110-111.

Enge, K.M. 1994. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus compressus (Island Glass Lizard). USA: Florida: Baker Co. Herpetological Review 25(4): 165.

Godley, J.S. 1976. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus compressus (Island Glass Lizard). USA: Florida: Taylor Co. Herpetological Review 7(3): 122-123.

Holman, J.A. 1971. Ophisaurus compressus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 113: 1-2.

Jensen, J.B. 1999. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus compressus (Island Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 30(3): 174.

Meylan, P. 1977. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus compressus. USA: Florida: Wakulla Co. Herpetological Review 8(2): 39.

Mitchell, J.C.; Ruckdeschel, C.; Meylan, P.A. 2009. Natural history notes: Ophisaurus compressus (Island Glass Lizard). Predation. Herpetological Review 40(2): 223-224.

Shoop, C.R.; Ruckdeschel, C. 1997. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus compressus (Island Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 28(3): 157.

Stevenson, D.; Crowe, D. 1992. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus compressus (Island Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 23(3): 90.

Ophisaurus incomptus

Holman, J.A. 1971. Ophisaurus incomptus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 114: 1.

McConkey, E.H. 1955. A new lizard of the genus Ophisaurus from Mexico. Natural History Miscellanea 145: 1-2.

Teran-Juraez, S.A. 2008. Anguis incomptus (Sauria: Anguidae), una adicion a la herpetofauna de Tamaulipas, Mexico. Acta Zoologica Mexicana Nueva Serie 24(2): 235-238.

Ophisaurus mimicus

Edmonds, L. 1992. Glass "snakes". Tropical Fish Hobbyist 41(3): 104, 106, 108, 110-111.

Palmer, W.M. 1987. A new species of glass lizard (Anguidae: Ophisaurus) from the southeastern United States. Herpetologica 43(4): 415-423.

Palmer, W.M. 1992. Ophiosaurus mimicus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 543: 1-2.

Ophisaurus ventralis

Brumwell, M.J. 1951. An ecological survey of the Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation. American Midland Naturalist 45(1): 187-231.

Caudill, G.; Caudill, D.; Carpenter, B.; Enge, K.M.; Curry, H.N. 2014. Natural history notes: Ophisaurus ventralis (Eastern Glass Lizard). Predation. Herpetological Review 45(4): 698.

Clarke, F.O.; Jensen, J.B.; Crawford, J.A. 2011. Natural history notes: Ophisaurus ventralis (Eastern Glass Lizard). Postmortem predation. Herpetological Review 42(4): 606-607.

Ditmars, R.L. 1904. Observations on lacertilians. Rep. Zool. Soc. New York 8 [1903]: 146-160.

Dowling, H.G. 1956. Geographic relations of Ozarkian amphibians and reptiles. Southwestern Naturalist 1(4): 174-189.

Freeman, H.W. 1955. Part V. The amphibia and reptilia of the Savannah river project area. 2. Chelonia. 3. Crocodilia, Sauria and Serpentes. U.S. Cur. Publ. Biol. 1(4): 239-244, 275-291.

Goethel, C.A.; Smith, H.T.; Moore, J.A. 2007. Ophisaurus ventralis (eastern glass lizard): a review of road-kill mortalities and occurrence in Florida with notes on an unusual event. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 22: 13.

Goodman, J.D. 1948. A report on the reptiles collected by J.M. Shaffer from the Keokuk Area, 1863-1895. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science 55: 365-366.

Gras-Riedel, U. 1993. Nachzucht einer selten gehaltenen Glasschleiche: Ophisaurus ventralis Linnaeus, 1766. Salamandra 28(3-4): 161-170.

Hamilton, W.J.; Pollack, J.A. 1961. The food of some lizards from Fort Benning, Georgia. Herpetologica 17: 99-106.

Holman, J.A. 1971. Ophisaurus ventralis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 115: 1-2.

Hudson, R.G. 1948. Maximum length of the glass lizard. Herpetologica 4(6): 224.

Kamel, S.; Gatten, R.E. 1983. Aerobic and anaerobic activity metabolism of limbless and fossorial reptiles. Physiological Zoology 56(3): 419-429.

Kaufmann, G.S.; Smith, H.T.; Engeman, R.M.; Meshaka, W.E.; Cowan, E.M. 2007. Natural history notes: Ophisaurus ventralis (eastern glass lizard). Fire-induced mortality. Herpetological Review 38(4): 460-461.

Krysko, K.L.; Reppas, A.T. 1998. Natural history notes: Ophisaurus ventralis (Eastern Glass Lizard). Nocturnal activity. Herpetological Review 29(4): 239.

Mitchell, J.C. 2007. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus ventralis (eastern glass lizard). Herpetological Review 38(1): 101.

Moore, J.A.; Smith, H.T.; Engeman, R.M. 2005. Natural history notes: Ophisaurus ventralis (eastern glass lizard). Predation. Herpetological Review 36(2): 182.

Pague, C.A.; Mitchell, J.C.; Merkle, D.A. 1983. Ophisaurus ventralis (Linnaeus): an addition to the lizard fauna of Virginia. Herpetological Review 14(2): 53.

Rodgers, J.A.; Schwikert, S.T.; Breen, T.F.; McConnell, E.K. 2002. Eastern glass lizard as probable prey of great egrets. Florida Field Naturalist 30(2): 40.

Schwab, D. 1988. Field notes. Ophisaurus ventralis (eastern glass lizard). Catesbeiana 8(2): 31.

Schwab, D. 1992. Life history notes: Ophisaurus ventralis (Eastern Glass Lizard). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 23(2): 60.

Stevenson, D.; Crowe, D. 1992. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus ventralis (Eastern Glass Lizard). Herpetological Review 23(3): 90.

Vinegar, A. 1968. Brooding of the eastern glass lizard, Ophisaurus ventralis. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 67: 65-68.

Welker, M.E.; Arnold, M. 2004. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus ventralis (eastern glass lizard). Herpetological Review 35(2): 188.

Whitaker, J.O.; Ruckdeschel, C.; Bakken, L. 2012. Food of some lizards from Cumberland Island, Georgia. Herpetological Review 43(4): 569-571.

Witz, B.W.; Wilson, D.S. 1993. Clutch size, egg mass, and incubation period in an Eastern Glass Lizard, Ophisaurus ventralis. Florida Field Naturalist 21(2): 36-37.