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Ophiodes fragilis (RADDI, 1820)

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Higher TaxaDiploglossidae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Fragile Worm Lizard
Portuguese: Alicanço, Aliscanço, Cobra-de-Vidro, Cobra-de-Vidro-Comum, Cobra-de-Vidro-Dourada, Cobra-de-Vidro-Grande, Cobra-de-Vidro-Verde, Cobra-Lagarto, Fura-Mato, Lagarto-de-Vidro, Licanço, Licranço, Liscanço, Luzidio, Quebra-Quebra 
SynonymSeps fragilis RADDI 1820: 341
Ophiodes fragilis — PETERS 1877
Ophiodes yacupoi GALLARDO 1966: 139
Ophiodes yacupoi — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 210
Ophiodes yacupoi — CEI 1993
Ophiodes fragilis — BÉRNILS et al. 2001
Ophiodes yacupoi — BERNILS et al. 2007
Ophiodes fragilis — CALDEIRA-COSTA et al. 2009
Ophiodes fragilis — AVILA et al. 2013
Ophiodes yacupoi — COSTA & BÉRNILS 2015
Ophiodes fragilis — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2021
Ophiodes cf. fragilis — OLIVEIRA et al. 2021 
DistributionArgentina, Paraguay (fide Paul Smith, pers. comm., 27 Apr 2014), Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)

yacupoi: Brazil (Mato Grosso), Bolivia (Santa Cruz); Type locality: Yerbal San Martín, Puerto Libertad, Misiones, Argentina.  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesLectotype: ZSM 593/0
Holotype: MACN 12721, paratypes: MACN [yacupoi] 
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CommentSynonymy: Ophiodes fragilis has been revalidated by Marcos di Bernardo (pers. comm. to A. Kwet). This species has been previously synonymized with O. striatus.

Distribution: Argentinean populations of this species were named as Ophiodes yacupoi Gallardo, 1966 for a long time, but new evidence (Martins 1998) suggests that this species must be named as O. fragilis. O. yacupoi is not in Paraguay (fide Cacciali & Scott 2012 and Cacciali et al. 2016), nor in Argentina; Argentinean populations of this species actually belong to O. fragilis (Avila et al. 2013).

Limb morphology: : hindlimbs only (reduced). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin fragilis, brittle, frail; impermanent. (RADDI 1820, Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024) 
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