Ophiomorus brevipes (Blanford, 1874)

HOLOTYPE. ZSI 3464.

TYPE LOCALITY. Originally “haud procul a Karman in Persia meridionali” [= near Kerman in southern Persia]. Das et al. (1998) specified the locality to “Saadatabad, S. W. of Karman, Persia ” perhaps based on the note by Smith (1935), p. 348.

DISTRIBUTION. E Iran, SW Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 133. Most records are from along the Afghan and Pakistani border (Khorasan Razavi, South Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.), other records are from Kerman, Hormozgan , and Semnan Prov.

HABITAT. Sandy regions with scattered small shrubs (Anderson 1999).

REMARKS. Morphologically closely related to O. nuchalis (Greer & Wilson 2001) .

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Greer & Wilson (2001); Khan (2006).