Ophiomorus nuchalis Nilson & Andren 1978

• Main Authors: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh, Gholamifard, Ali
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• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Reptilia; Squamata; Scincidae; Ophiomorus; Ophiomorus nuchalis; sami
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4331086; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/5363E7318B1FFFFE6B5A5F7CFAD7F835

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). Published as part of 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, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on page 523, DOI:10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795