Ophiomorus maranjabensis Kazemi, Qomi, Kami & Anderson, 2011

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4929519
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scientific name	Ophiomorus maranjabensis Kazemi, Qomi, Kami & Anderson, 2011
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HOLOTYPE. ZMGU 2570 .

TYPE LOCALITY. Maranjab, south of Daryache Namak, Esfahan Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 134 View FIGURES 134–139. 134 . Known only from the type locality and its vicinity .

HABITAT. Loose sandy substrate with sparse vegetation consisting of Alhagi sp. , Heliotropium aucheri , Peganum harmala , Rosularia sp. and various grasses.

REMARKS. This species resembles morphologically O. raithmai from S Pakistan and NW India ( Kazemi et al. 2011).

REFERENCES. Kazemi et al. (2011).

Kazemi, S. M., Qomi, M. F., Kami, H. G. & Anderson, S. C. (2011) A new species of Ophiomorus (Squamata: Scincidae) from Maranjab Desert, Isfahan Province, Iran, with a revised key to the genus. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 5, 23 - 32.

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FIGURES 134–139. 134. Ophiomorus maranjabensis. 135. Ophiomorus nuchalis. 136. Ophiomorus persicus. 137. Ophiomorus streeti. 138. Ophiomorus tridactylus. 139. Scincus scincus. Blue square denotes the type locality for S. s. conirostris.