Ophiomorus tridactylus ( Blyth, 1853 )

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 : 47

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Ophiomorus tridactylus ( Blyth, 1853)

SYNTYPES. ZSI 2526–29 , ZSI 2531–32 .

TYPE LOCALITY. Afghanistan.

DISTRIBUTION. E Iran, S Afghanistan, W Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 138 View FIGURES 134–139. 134 . Known from the Zabol area ( Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. ) and from isolated localities in South Khorasan and Hormozgan Prov. ( BMNH specimen) .

HABITAT. Loose sandy soil and sand dunes ( Blyth 1853).

REMARKS. A sister species to O. raithmai Anderson & Leviton according to morphology ( Greer & Wilson 2001). REFERENCES. Anderson & Leviton (1966b); Anderson (1999); Greer & Wilson (2001).

References

Anderson, S. C. & Leviton, A. E. (1966 b) A review of the genus Ophiomorus with description of three new forms. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 33, 499 - 534.

Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.

Blyth, E. (1853) Notices and Descriptions of various Reptiles. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 22, 639 - 655.

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.