Ophiomorus maranjabensis KAZEMI, FARHADI QOMI, KAMI & ANDERSON, 2011
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Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
Subspecies | |
Common Names | E: Maranjab’s snake skink |
Synonym | Ophiomorus maranjabensis KAZEMI, FARHADI QOMI, KAMI & ANDERSON 2011 Ophiomorus maranjabensis — NASRABADI et al. 2017 |
Distribution | C Iran (Esfahan) Type locality: Maranjab, south of Daryache Namak, Iran, N 34°19’52.78”, E 51°53’20.44” |
Reproduction | |
Types | Holotype: ZMGU (Zoological Museum Gorgan University) 2570, an adult female, collected 17 May 2011 by M. Farhadi and S. M. Kazemi. Paratypes: ZMGU 2571 and 2572, adult females, from Maranjab, about 1 km southwest of holotype, N 34°18’56.50”, E 51°52’45.15”. |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis: An Ophiomorus with three fingers, three toes; distinctly enlarged nuchals; snout bluntly spatulate; interparietal broader than long; frontonasal septagonal; six supralabials, the fifth, greatly enlarged, below the eye. Parietals in contact behind interparietal; nuchals in contact behind parietals. Preocular very large, about two-thirds distance between eye and nostril, and in contact with third, fourth, and fifth supralabials. Twenty-two scales round the middle of the body. |
Comment | Distribution: See map in SMID et al. 2014 for distribution in Iran. |
Etymology | named after the type locality. |
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