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Eastern glass lizards are most active during the day and can be found foraging in open habitats but also like to take refuge beneath debris. [16] A study in 2020 found O. ventralis using a crayfish burrow as habitat in southeastern Mississippi. Various invertebrates and vertebrates are known to use these burrows but this is the first time a ...
Two Eastern glass lizards are on display at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Rachel Myers, the museum’s curator of reptiles and amphibians, said the best bet for seeing them is ...
Anguinae is a subfamily of legless lizards in the family Anguidae, commonly called glass lizards, glass snakes or slow worms. The first two names come from the fact their tails easily break or snap off. Members of Anguinae are native to North America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
Slender glass lizard (Ophisaurus attenuatus)Ophisaurus (from the Greek 'snake-lizard') is a genus of superficially snake-like legless lizards in the subfamily Anguinae.Known as joint snakes, glass snakes, or glass lizards, they are so-named because their tails are easily broken; like many lizards, they have the ability to deter predation by dropping off part of the tail, which can break into ...
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The western slender glass lizard reaches an average of 0.66 m (26 in). It can be found in woods or dry rocky hillsides, in grass or the burrows of small mammals. The species can easily camouflage itself in tall grass because of its color. [9] Eastern slender glass lizard, O. a. longicaudus McConkey, 1952 [10]
Eastern slender glass lizard: Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus: Anguidae: Apparently secure (S4) Eastern glass lizard: Ophisaurus ventralis: Anguidae: State threatened Critically imperiled (S1) Eastern fence lizard: Sceloporus undulatus: Phrynosomatidae: Secure (S5) Northern coal skink: Plestiodon anthracinus anthracinus: Scincidae: Vulnerable ...
Texas horned lizard Phrynosoma cornutum (I) Eastern fence lizard Sceloporus undulatus; Suborder: Autarchoglossa. Family: Teiidae. Eastern six-lined racerunner Aspidoscelis sexlineata sexlineata; Family: Scincidae. Coal skink Plestiodon anthracinus; Common five-lined skink Plestiodon fasciatus; Southeastern five-lined skink Plestiodon inexpectatus