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Taxonomy
Ophisaurus was named by Daudin (1803). It is extant.
It was assigned to Gerrhonotinae by McDowell and Bogert (1954); to Ophisaurini by Augé (2005); to Anguidae by Cope (1875), Carroll (1988), Frank and Ramus (1996), Mors et al. (2000), Böhme (2008), Venczel and Stiuca (2008) and Böhme (2010); and to Anguinae by Rage and Ford (1980), Estes (1983), Sullivan (1987), Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014) and Cernansky et al. (2015).
It was assigned to Gerrhonotinae by McDowell and Bogert (1954); to Ophisaurini by Augé (2005); to Anguidae by Cope (1875), Carroll (1988), Frank and Ramus (1996), Mors et al. (2000), Böhme (2008), Venczel and Stiuca (2008) and Böhme (2010); and to Anguinae by Rage and Ford (1980), Estes (1983), Sullivan (1987), Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014) and Cernansky et al. (2015).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1803 | Ophisaurus Daudin |
1875 | Opheosaurus Cope p. 46 |
1883 | Propseudopus Hilgendorf p. 139 |
1954 | Ophisaurus McDowell and Bogert p. 130 |
1980 | Ophisaurus Rage and Ford p. 50 |
1983 | Ophisaurus Estes |
1987 | Ophisaurus Sullivan p. 131 |
1988 | Ophisaurus Carroll |
1996 | Ophisaurus Frank and Ramus |
2000 | Ophisaurus Mors et al. p. 151 |
2005 | Ophisaurus Augé |
2008 | Ophisaurus Böhme p. 169 |
2008 | Ophisaurus Venczel and Stiuca p. 753 figs. 13A, B |
2010 | Ophisaurus Böhme p. 24 |
2014 | Ophisaurus Vianey-Liaud et al. p. 573 |
2015 | Ophisaurus Cernansky et al. p. 107 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Ophisaurus Daudin 1803 [glass lizard]
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†Ophisaurus acuminatus Jorg 1965
Ophisaurus apodus Pallas 1775 [Armored glass lizard]
Ophisaurus attenuatus Cope 1880 [Slender glass lizard]
†Ophisaurus canadensis Holman 1970
Ophisaurus compressus Cope 1900 [island glass lizard]
†Ophisaurus feifari Klembara 1979
Ophisaurus harti Boulenger 1899 [Hart's glass lizard]
†Ophisaurus holeci Klembara 2015
Ophisaurus koellikeri Gunther 1873 [Koelliker's glass lizard]
†Ophisaurus robustus Klembara 1979
†Ophisaurus roqueprunensis Auge 1992
†Ophisaurus spinari Klembara 1979
Ophisaurus ventralis Linnaeus 1766 [eastern glass lizard]
Invalid names: Propseudopus Hilgendorf 1883 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available