Ophiomorus streeti ANDERSON & LEVITON, 1966

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Street's Snake Skink
Synonym	Ophiomorus streeti ANDERSON & LEVITON 1966: 512 Ophiomorus streeti — ANDERSON 1999 Ophiomorus streeti — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 Ophiomorus streeti — GHOLAMIFARD 2011 Ophiomorus streeti — NASRABADI et al. 2017
Distribution	SE Iran (Baluchistan) Type locality: Iran: Baluchistan, 11 miles west of Iranshahr.
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: FMNH 141551
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Snout cuneiform, with sharp angular labial edge; supranasals broadly in contact medially; prefrontals not in contact with upper labials; frontonasal longer than broad. Twenty scales round the middle of the body. Fingers three; toes three. Cream above in preservative, each scale of the eight dorsal rows with a dark brown spot, these forming eight longitudinal lines extending from the posterior head shields to the level of insertion of the hind limbs; posteriorly six lines continue onto tail. Venter and sides immaculate white (ANDERSON & LEVITON 1966).
Comment	Distribution: See map in SMID et al. 2014 for distribution in Iran.
Etymology	named after W.S. Street and J.K. Street, the collectors of the types (together with Douglas M. Lay).
References	Anderson, S.C. & Leviton,A.E. 1966. A review of the genus Ophiomorus (Sauria: Scincidae), with descriptions of three new forms. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 33 (16): 499-534 - get paper here Anderson, Steven C 1999. The lizards of Iran. Contributions to Herpetology Volume 15, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Saint Louis, Missouri: i-vii, 1-442 [review in Copeia 2000 (4): 1144] - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Gholamifard, A 2011. Endemism in the reptile fauna of Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 7 (1) - get paper here Greer, Allen E. and George D. F. Wilson 2001. Comments on the scincid lizard genus Ophiomorus, with a cladistic analysis of the species. Hamadryad 26 (2): 261-271 [2002] - get paper here Kamali, Kamran 2020. A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Iran. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (www.chimaira.de). 574 pp. KAZEMI, SEYED MAHDI; MASOOD FARHADI QOMI, HAJI GHOLI KAMI AND STEVEN CLEMENT ANDERSON 2011. A new species of Ophiomorus (Squamata: Scincidae) from Maranjab Desert, Isfahan Province, Iran, with a revised key to the genus. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 5 (1): 23-33. - get paper here NASRABADI, REZA; NASRULLAH RASTEGAR-POUYANI, ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI, AHMAD GHARZI 2017. A revised key to the lizards of Iran (Reptilia: Squamata: Lacertilia). Zootaxa 4227 (3): 431–443 - get paper here RASTEGAR-POUYANI, NASRULLAH; HAJI GHOLI KAMI, MEHDI RAJABZADEH, SOHEILA SHAFIEI AND STEVEN CLEMENT ANDERSON 2008. Annotated Checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles of Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 4 (1): 7-30 Rathor. M. S. 1969. Fossorial and nocturnal adaptations of the Indian sand lizard, Ophiomorus streeti Anderson & Levinton. Japanese J. Ecol 19(2): 67-69 Rathor. M.S. 1970. Temperature responses in the Indian sand lizard Ophiomorus streeti Anderson & Levinton. Japanese J. Ecol 20(2): 76-80 Sami, Soheil; Barbod Safaei-Mahroo, Hanyeh Ghaffari 2017. Range Extensions of Three Endemic Snake-Skinks (Scincidae: Ophiomorus) in Iran. Russ. J. Herpetol. 24 (4): 329-332<br /> - get paper here Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here ŠMÍD, JIŘÍ; JIŘÍ MORAVEC, PETR KODYM, LUKÁŠ KRATOCHVÍL, SEYYED SAEED HOSSEINIAN YOUSEFKHANI, ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI & DANIEL FRYNTA 2014. Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran. Zootaxa 3855 (1): 001–097 - get paper here
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