Dopasia

Dopasia harti

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Diploglossa

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Scotokaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Superclassis*: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Anguimorpha Infraordo: Neoanguimorpha Superfamilia: Diploglossa

Familia: Anguidae
Subfamilia: Anguinae
Genus: Dopasia
Species (8): D. buettikoferi – D. formosensis – D. gracilis – D. hainanensis – D. harti – D. ludovici – D. sokolovi – D. wegneri

Name

Dopasia Gray, 1853: 389

• Type species: Pseudopus gracilis Gray, 1845, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Ophiseps Blyth, 1853: 655
  • Type species: Ophiseps tesselatus Blyth, 1853, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1853. Descriptions of some undescribed species of reptiles collected by Dr. Joseph Hooker in the Khassia Mountains, East Bengal, and Sikkim Himalaya. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 2 12: 386–392. BHL
• Blyth, E. 1853. Notices and descriptions of various reptiles, new or little-known. Part I. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 22: 639–655. BHL

Additional references

• Nguyen, T.Q., Böhme, W., Nguyen, T.T., Le, Q.K., Pahl, K.R., Haus, T. & Ziegler, T. 2011. Review of the genus Dopasia Gray, 1853 (Squamata: Anguidae) in the Indochina subregion. Zootaxa 2894(1): 58–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2894.1.4 Reference page. 
• Lavin, B.R. & Girman, D.J. 2019. Phylogenetic relationships and divergence dating in the Glass Lizards (Anguinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 133: 128–140. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.12.022 Reference page. 
• Lin, S-M., Shen, C-C., Lin, T-E., Liang, Y-J. & Chang, W-H. 2026. Redescription and neotype designation of Dopasia formosensis (Kishida, 1930) (Squamata, Anguidae) from Taiwan. ZooKeys 1270: 69–98. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1270.173752 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2026. Dopasia . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 4 September 2020.

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