Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran
Author
Šmíd, Jiří
Author
Moravec, Jiří
Author
Kodym, Petr
Author
Kratochvíl, Lukáš
Author
Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian
Author
Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
jirismd@gmail.com.
Author
Frynta, Daniel
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Zootaxa
2014
2014-08-20
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journal article
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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)
.