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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D7AD1558-5D6E-4C68-9F25-F7C1B5DB9C54

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4331086

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5363E731-8B1F-FFFE-6B5A-5F7CFAD7F835

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scientific name

Ophiomorus nuchalis Nilson & Andrén, 1978
status

 

Ophiomorus nuchalis Nilson & Andrén, 1978 View in CoL

Ophiomorus nuchalis Nilson & Andrén, 1978: 559 View in CoL .

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). GoogleMaps

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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Scincidae

Genus

Ophiomorus

Loc

Ophiomorus nuchalis Nilson & Andrén, 1978

Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali 2018
2018
Loc

Ophiomorus nuchalis Nilson & Andrén, 1978: 559

NILSON G. & ANDREN C. 1978: 559
1978
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