Ophiomorus blanfordii Boulenger, 1887

Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, Zootaxa 3855 (1), pp. 1-97 : 45

Ophiomorus blanfordii Boulenger, 1887

HOLOTYPE. BMNH 80.11 .10.188.

TYPE LOCALITY. Originally stated as “ Persia or Baluchistan”; restricted by Anderson & Leviton (1966b) to Chah Bahar [Chabahar], Sistan and Baluchistan Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. SE Iran and SW Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 132 . Known with certainty only from the type locality, although there are more mentions of this species but without exact locality data ( Boulenger 1887; Werner 1917).

HABITAT. Coastal sand dunes with sparse vegetation ( Khan 2006).

REMARKS. Boulenger in his original description used the spelling ‘ blanfordii ’ with a double ‘i’, hence the spelling ‘ blanfordi ’ used by many authors ( Smith 1935; Anderson & Leviton 1966b; Anderson 1999; Khan 2006; Sindaco & Jeremčenko 2008) is incorrect.

REFERENCES. Boulenger (1887); Shockley (1949); Anderson (1999); Greer & Wilson (2001); Khan (2006).

Figures

FIGURES 128–133. 128. Ablepharus pannonicus. 129. Chalcides ocellatus. 130. Eumeces schneiderii. Red symbols represent records of E. s. princeps, blue of E. s. zarudnyi and blue square denotes its type locality, violet question mark indicates dubious data for E. blythianus. 131. Eurylepis taeniolatus. 132. Ophiomorus blanfordii. 133. Ophiomorus brevipes.