“…The lizards belonging to the Ophiodes Wagler, 1828 genus (Squamata, Anguidae, Diploglossinae), popularly known as glass snakes, glass lizards or smash breaks, are exclusively Neotropical and distributed from the east of the Andes to the southeast of South America (Borges-Martins 1998, Pizzato 2005, Barros & Teixeira 2007, Montechiaro et al 2011, Cacciali & Scott 2012, 2015, Oliveira et al 2016, Ortiz et al 2017, Entiauspe-Neto et al 2017. Some morphological characteristics include a small pointed head, elongated body and tail, and an absence of external vestiges of anterior limbs with rudimentary posterior limbs (Barros & Teixeira 2007, Montechiaro et al 2011, Cacciali & Scott 2012, 2015.…”