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  • English
    • Slender Glass Lizard
    • Eastern Slender Glass Lizard
  • Scientific names
    • Ophisaurus ventralis attenuatus
    • Ophisaurus attenuatus sulcatus
    • Ophisaurus attenuatus

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Observer

keegansmith417

Date

Apr 14, 2012

Place

Hillsboro Missouri (Google, OSM)

Description

This is the western Slender Glass Lizard..absolutely incredible! Im not sure if they get their common name from how smooth their scales are or how easily their tail breaks off into pieces.

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Description from Wikipedia

The Slender Glass Lizard, (Ophisaurus attenuatus) is a legless lizard which can attain a length of up to 1 meter. Two subspecies are recognised.

Source: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/spatial-data. Downloaded March 2011.