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Higher TaxaAnguidae (Anguinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Burmese Glass Lizard, Asian Glass Lizard, Indian glass snake
G: Asiatische Glasschleiche, Zierliche Glasschleiche
Chinese: 细脆蛇蜥 
SynonymPseudopus gracilis GRAY 1845: 56
Ophiseps tessellatus BLYTH 1853: 655 (fide SMITH 1935)
Pseudopus gracilis — THEOBALD 1868: 24
Pseudopus gracilis — ANDERSON 1871: 156
Ophisaurus gracilis — BOULENGER 1885: 283
Dopasia gracilis — CAMP 1923: 368
Ophisaurus gracilis — SMITH 1935: 393
Ophisaurus gracilis — WERMUTH 1969
Ophisaurus gracilis — DAS 1996
Ophisaurus gracilis — COX et al. 1998: 108
Ophisaurus gracilis — BOBROV 2008: 219
Dopasia gracilis — NGUYEN et al. 2011
Ophisaurus gracilis — KÄSTLE et al. 2013: 435
Ophisaurus gracilis — CHAN-ARD et al. 2015: 139 
DistributionN India (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, North Bengal, Sikkim, Darjeeling, Himachal Pradesh), Nepal, S China (Hunan, Yunnan etc.), N Myanmar (Burma), N Indochina, Thailand, Vietnam.

Type locality: Khasi Hills, [now in Meghalaya] India (Brygoo 1987).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.8.29.28 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Maximum SVL 208 mm; ear opening greater than nostril; nasal separated from frontonasal by 3 (rarely 2) scales; dorsal scales strongly keeled; longitudinal scale rows between lateral folds 14–18; scales along lateral fold 81–97; vertebrae from atlas to hind limb bones 47–52; two dark stripes present on each side of body: dorsolateral stripe from one head-length behind ear opening to tail tip, progressively broader posteriorly; ventrolateral stripe narrower but more distinct than dorsolateral stripe (Campden-Main 1970, Brygoo 1987, Lin et al. 2003, pers. obs.) (Figs. 1, 4A in NGUYEN et al. 2011).
 
CommentSimilar species: D. sokolovi.

Type species: Pseudopus gracilis GRAY 1845 is the type species of the genus Dopasia GRAY 1853.

Distribution: possibly in Bhutan (Lenz 2012).

Genome: the genome of this species has been sequenced by Song et al. 2015. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “gracilis”, meaning small or lanky, or gracile. 
References
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  • Bhupathy, S., Ramesh Kumar, S., Paramanandham, J., Thirumalainathan, P. and Pranjit Kumar Sarma 2013. Conservation of reptiles in Nagaland, India. In: K. K. Singh et al. (editors), Bioresources and Traditional Knowledge of Northeast India, Mizo Post-Graduate Science Society, pp. 181-186
  • Blyth,E. 1854. Notices and descriptions of various reptiles, new or little-known. Part I. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 22 [1853]: 639-655 - get paper here
  • Bobrov V.V., Semenov D.V. 2008. Lizards of Vietnam [in Russian]. Moscow, 236 pp.
  • Bobrov, V. V. 1995. Checklist and bibliography of lizards of Vietnam. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (105): - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1887. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575 pp. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here
  • Camp, Charles Lewis 1923. Classification of the Lizards. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 48 (11): 289-481. - get paper here
  • Campden-Main, Simon M. 1970. The first record of Ophisaurus gracilis (Gray) (Sauria: Anguidae) in South Vietnam. Herpetologica 26 (1): 17-18 - get paper here
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