Ophiomorus nuchalis Nilson & Andrén, 1978

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 : 46

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scientific name	Ophiomorus nuchalis Nilson & Andrén, 1978
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HOLOTYPE. GNM 4418.

TYPE LOCALITY. Siah Kuh (Black Moumains) in the central part of the Kavir Protected Region about 150 km south of Teheran, Semnan Prov., Iran .

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 135 View FIGURES 134–139. 134 . So far reported from three nearby localities in Semnan and Tehran Prov. HABITAT. Unlike most other Ophiomorus species , O. nuchalis lives in more rocky habitats and on bare stony ground with only sparse and patchy vegetation dominated by Artemisia herba-alba . Mozaffari et al. (2011a) found four specimens burrowed in loose soil layer mixed with plant detritus under bushes.

REFERENCES. Nilson & Andrén (1978); Greer & Wilson (2001); Mozaffari et al. (2011a).

References

Greer, A. E. & Wilson, G. D. F. (2001) Comments on the Scincid lizard genus Ophiomorus, with a cladistic analysis of the species. Hamadryad, 26, 261 - 271.

Mozaffari, O., Ghaffari, H., Kamali, K. & Safaei, B. (2011 a) New record of plateau snake skink, Ophiomorus nuchalis (Squamata: Scincidae), from Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 18, 36 - 38.

Nilson, G. & Andren, C. (1978) A new species of Ophiomorus from Kavir desert, Iran. Copeia, 1978, 559 - 564. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 1443680