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Higher TaxaDiploglossidae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Striped 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 
SynonymPygopus striatus SPIX 1824: 25
Pygopus cariococca SPIX 1824: 26 (fide BOULENGER 1886)
Pygopus Caryococca SPIX 1825 (fide FRANZEN & GLAW 2007: 212)
Seps fragilis RADDI 1826
Pygopus Gronovii WAGLER 1828: 741 (fide BOULENGER 1886)
Ophiodes striatus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 789
Ophiodes striatus — GRAVENHORST 1851: 379
Ophiodes fragilis — PETERS 1877
Ophiodes striatus — BOULENGER 1885: 296
Opheodes [sic] striatus — COPE 1885: 189
Ophiodes striatus — BOULENGER 1886: 426
Ophiodes grilli BOULENGER 1913: 49
Ophoides striatus — STOKELY 1947 (in error)
Ophiodes striatus — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 209
Ophiodes fragilis — BÉRNILS et al. 2001
Ophiodes fragilis — CALDEIRA-COSTA et al. 2009
Ophiodes fragilis — AVILA et al. 2013
Ophiodes aff. striatus — SANTOS et al. 2014
Ophiodes striatus — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2021 
DistributionBrazil (Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Ceará, Mato Grosso, Goiás ?, Bahia), Paraguay, Uruguay

Type locality: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesLectotype: ZSM 593/0
Holotype: MSNG 28320 [grilli] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): see Gallardo 1966: 126 (in Spanish). 
CommentSynonymy mostly after PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970.

Limb morphology: : hindlimbs only (reduced).

Type Species: Pygopus striatus SPIX 1824 is the type species of the genus Ophiodes WAGLER 1828. Content (Ophiodes sensu Schools & Hedges 2021): Six species: Ophiodes enso, O. fragilis, O. intermedius, O. luciae, O. striatus, and O. vertebralis.

Distribution: Not corrected for the split of O. striatus and O. fragilis. Not in Argentina fide AVILA et al. 2010. 
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