Eastern glass lizard | 台北市立動物園資訊網

Theeasternglasslizard(Ophisaurusventralis)isaspeciesofleglesslizardinthefamilyAnguidae.ThespeciesisendemictotheSoutheasternUnitedStates.

Species of reptile

The eastern glass lizard (Ophisaurus ventralis) is a species of legless lizard in the family Anguidae and the longest and heaviest species of glass lizards in the genus Ophisaurus,[5][failed verification]endemic to the Southeastern United States. The streamlined, legless species is often confused with snakes. Glass lizards differ from snakes as they possess a moveable eyelid and an external ear opening as well as a lateral groove that separates the different types of scales on the animal,[6] all three of these features are absent in snakes. Snakes also have flexible jaws while lizards do not.[5]Ventralis comes from the Latin "venter" meaning belly; this is in reference to the snake-like movement. [7]

Adults of O. ventralis grow to 46–108 cm (18–43 in) in total length, although the head-body length is only 30.5 cm (12.0 in) at most. There are 99 or more scales along the lateral groove. In this species, no dark longitudinal stripes are present below ...