Missouri Animals Western slender glass lizard   (Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus) Chordate: Vertebrate: Reptile: Lizards: (Lacertilia) Native North American skink Habitat: prairies, pastures. Diet: grasshoppers, crickets, spiders, snails, lizards.. ID Features: tan shiny body with lengthwise black stripes from head to tail. Natural History: The western slender glass lizard is a skink without legs. It has movable eyelids, ear openings, and a lateral groove down the body common to skinks and lizards but not to snakes..

The graphics and text are from: The Amphibians and Reptiles of Missouri by Tom R. Johnson, Missouri Department of Conservation, ©1992