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Dopasia wegneri (MERTENS, 1959)

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Higher TaxaAnguidae (Anguinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Wegner's Glass Lizard 
SynonymOphisaurus wegneri MERTENS 1959
Ophisaurus wegneri — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 203
Dopasia wegneri — NGUYEN 2013 (pers. comm.) 
DistributionIndonesia (Sumatra)

Type locality: “Gunung Sago (= Gunung Malintang), 1600 m [elevation], weitere Umgebung von Paja Komboh, westliches Zentral-Sumatra”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: SMF 55995, adult 
DiagnosisDiagnosis. “Eine Art der Gattung Ophisaurus ohne äußerlich erkennbare Hintergliedmaßen, mit großer Ohröffnung, voneinander getrennten paarigen Praefrontalia, einem schmalen Interparietale, das nur wenig breiter ist als ein Parietale, mit einem kleinen paarigen akzessorischen Schildchen zwischen dem Außenrande des Frontale und dem 1. und 2. Supraoculare sowie mit 3 Schuppen in einer Linie zwischen dem Nasenloch und dem unpaaren Praefrontale.” (Mertens 1959)


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CommentAbundance: only known from the type specimen (Meiri et al. 2017). 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Manthey, U. & Grossmann, W. 1997. Amphibien & Reptilien Südostasiens. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 512 pp. (ISBN 3-931587-12-6) - get paper here
  • Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here
  • Mertens, R. 1959. Eine Panzerschleiche (Ophisaurus) aus Sumatra. Senckenbergiana biologica 40(1/2): 109-111.
  • TEYNIÉ, ALEXANDRE; PATRICK DAVID, & ANNEMARIE OHLER 2010. Note on a collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from Western Sumatra (Indonesia), with the description of a new species of the genus Bufo. Zootaxa 2416: 1–43 - get paper here
 
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