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Taxonomy:
Two subspecies are recognized (de Queiroz and Reeder 2012). The
Eastern Slender Glass Lizard (O. a. longicaudus) occurs in Tennessee (Conant and Collins 1998).
Distribution:
The Slender Glass Lizard is known from a large portion of the
state, but has yet to be documented from several counties in West and East Tennessee,
and the southern tier counties of Middle Tennessee.
Museum Records
by Counties: Bledsoe—FLMNH
17475; NCSM 8399.
Blount—GSMNP
3863, 3864, 15871; UTKVZC 04760, 04761.
Bradley—USNM
029618.
Cumberland—AMNH
R-73589; TTU 483, uncataloged (1 specimen); UMMZ 56364.
Fentress—APSU
19298.
Grundy—APSU
2456, APSU 19787.
Hardeman—APSU 16855-16857, 17484; LSUMZ 34770; UMMZ 97434, 97435.
Henderson—APSU 6002.
Hickman—APSU 3436.
Knox—MCZ
606; USNM 004169; UTKVZC 03424.
McNairy—APSU
12140.
Montgomery—APSU
02373, 03763, 05467.
Polk—APSU
17481; FLMNH 17474.
Putnam—TTU
uncataloged (1 specimens).
Roane—USNM 014724.
Rutherford—MTSU uncataloged (2
specimens).
Scott—UTKVZC
03423.
Sequatchie—APSU 02456.
Van Buren—APSU
19896; NCSM
8402.
White—TTU
322.
Literature
Sources by Counties: Bedford—Gentry
(1956).
Blount—King (1939), Huheey and
Stupka (1965), Huheey and Stupka (1967). Bradley—Burt (1937),
McConkey (1954), Cochran (1961).
Chester—Endsley (1954).
Coffee—Miller et al. (2005), Niemiller (2005).
Cumberland—McConkey (1954), Gentry (1956).
Davidson—Gentry (1956).
Fentress—Cobb
(2012).
Franklin—Gerald
(2005), Miller et al. (2005), Gerald et al. (2006).
Hamilton—Wilson et al. (2012).
Hardeman—Endsley
(1954), McConkey (1954), Gentry (1956), Norton and Harvey (1975).
Knox—Cope
(1900), Burt (1937), McConkey (1954), Cochran (1961).
Montgomery—Scott and Snyder (1968) [in an addendum to the article].
Roane—Cope
(1900), Burt (1937), McConkey (1954), Cochran (1961).
Shelby—Parker
(1948).
Sumner—Gentry (1956).
Van Buren—Gentry
(1956). Warren—Gentry
(1956).
Questionable
and/or Erroneous Records:
None.
Conservation
Status:
Tennessee populations of Ophisaurus
attenuatus are considered Wildlife in Need of Management by the Tennessee
Wildlife Resources Commission (Proclamation 00-14, Wildlife in Need of
Management) and are given a state ranking of S3 (rare and uncommon in the state,
from 21-100 occurrences) by the Tennessee Department of Environment and
Conservation, Division of Natural Heritage (Tennessee Department of Environment
and Conservation 2016).
Posted: 14 July 2008
Latest Revision: 19 November 2018
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