Ophiomorus nuchalis Nilson & Andrén, 1978

Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, Zoosystema 40 (24), pp. 507-537 : 523

Ophiomorus nuchalis Nilson & Andrén, 1978

Ophiomorus nuchalis Nilson & Andrén, 1978: 559 .

COMMON NAME. — Plateau Snake Skink.

HOLOTYPE. — GNM 4418.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Siah Kuh in the Kavir Protected Region (34°44’N, 52°11’E), Semnan Province ( Anderson 1999).

DISTRIBUTION. — Untill now the species is recorded from the following provinces: Alborz, Teharan, Qom, Semnan, Esfahan and Yazd ( Mozaffari et al. 2011b; Qomi et al. 2011; Farhadi et al. 2015; Hosseinzadeh et al. 2016; Sami et al. 2017).

HABITAT. — Found under stones on the gravel ground ( Anderson 1999), in loose soil layer mixed with plant detritus under bushes (Smid et al. 2014), as well as farmlands ( Qomi et al. 2011).

IUCN. — Least concern.

REFERENCES. — Nilson & Andrén (1978); Anderson (1999); Mozaffari et al. (2011b); Qomi et al. (2011); Smid et al. (2014); Farhadi et al. (2015); Hosseinzadeh et al. (2016); Sami et al. (2017).