Dopasia
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Preserved specimen of the South China sneak ( Dopasia harti ) in the Museum of Natural History in Kunming . |
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Dopasia is a sneak genus from Southeast Asia. The genus was established in 1853 by the British zoologist John Edward Gray , but later synonymous with the genus of the glass sneak ( Ophisaurus ) , which occurs mainly in North America. Since the German herpetologist Wolfgang Böhme and colleaguesre-described the Southeast Asian sneakspecies, the generic name Dopasia has been usedagain for these species.
features
Dopasia species have an elongated, legless body with a round cross-section with a head-trunk length of 12.8 to 27.8 cm and a tail length of 32.2 to 44.8 cm. The number of vertebrae from the atlas to the rudimentary bones of the hind legs is 45 to 58. Dopasia species are generally brown in color and often show two dark longitudinal stripes on the sides of the body. The back scales are keeled, in Dopasia hainanensis the keel on the front part of the body is only weakly developed. The number of scales along the stretchable skin folds on both sides of the body is 78 to 102, the number of scales between the two skin folds is 16 to 20 (rarely 14 in Dopasia harti ). The ear openings are small. The nasal is separated from the frontonasal by two to three scales. The number of supralabials is 9 to 11, and the number of supraoculars is 5.
species
The Reptile Database lists seven species:
- Borneo sneak ( Dopasia buettikoferi (Lidth De Jeude, 1905))
- Burmese sneak ( Dopasia gracilis (Gray, 1845))
- Dopasia hainanensis (Yang, 1984)
- South China sneak ( Dopasia harti (Boulenger, 1899))
- Dopasia ludovici (Mocquard, 1905)
- Dopasia sokolovi (Darevsky & Nguyen-Van-Sang, 1983)
- Sumatran sneak ( Dopasia wegneri (Mertens, 1959))
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Truong Quang Nguyen, Wolfgang Böhme , Tao Thien Nguyen, Quyet Khac Le, Kristian Robert Pahl, Tanja Haus & Thomas Ziegler: Review of the genus Dopasia Gray, 1853 (Squamata: Anguidae) in the Indochina subregion Zootaxa , 2894: 58 -68 (2011), ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition), ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition)
- ^ Dopasia in The Reptile Database