Dopasia wegneri (MERTENS, 1959)

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Higher Taxa	Anguidae (Anguinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Wegner's Glass Lizard
Synonym	Ophisaurus wegneri MERTENS 1959 Ophisaurus wegneri — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 203 Dopasia wegneri — NGUYEN 2013 (pers. comm.)
Distribution	Indonesia (Sumatra) Type locality: “Gunung Sago (= Gunung Malintang), 1600 m [elevation], weitere Umgebung von Paja Komboh, westliches Zentral-Sumatra”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: SMF 55995, adult
Diagnosis
Comment	Abundance: only known from the type specimen (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	Named after A.M.R. Wegner, formlery director of the Zoological Museum in Bogor.
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
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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