Ophiomorus brevipes (Blanford, 1874)

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

Ophiomorus brevipes (Blanford, 1874)

HOLOTYPE. ZSI 3464 .

TYPE LOCALITY. Originally “haud procul a Karman in Persia meridionali” [= near Kerman in southern Persia]. Das et al. (1998) specified the locality to “Saadatabad, S. W. of Karman, Persia ” perhaps based on the note by Smith (1935), p. 348.

DISTRIBUTION. E Iran, SW Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 133 . Most records are from along the Afghan and Pakistani border (Khorasan Razavi, South Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. ), other records are from Kerman, Hormozgan , and Semnan Prov.

HABITAT. Sandy regions with scattered small shrubs ( Anderson 1999).

REMARKS. Morphologically closely related to O. nuchalis ( Greer & Wilson 2001) .

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Greer & Wilson (2001); Khan (2006).

Figures

FIGURES 128–133. 128. Ablepharus pannonicus. 129. Chalcides ocellatus. 130. Eumeces schneiderii. Red symbols represent records of E. s. princeps, blue of E. s. zarudnyi and blue square denotes its type locality, violet question mark indicates dubious data for E. blythianus. 131. Eurylepis taeniolatus. 132. Ophiomorus blanfordii. 133. Ophiomorus brevipes.