''Ophisops'' is a
genus
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of wall
lizards of the
family
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Lacertidae. They are small lacertids characterized by transparent lower eyelids that are completely or partially fused with the upper lids to form a cap over the eye.
Species
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of the genus ''Ophisops'' are distributed in southeast Europe, northeast Africa, to west Asia.
Species
The following 11 species are recognized:
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Ophisops agarwali''
Patel & Vyas, 2020 – Agarwal’s snake-eye, Agarwal’s lacerta
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Ophisops beddomei''
( Jerdon, 1870) – Beddome's snake-eye, Beddome’s lacerta
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Ophisops elbaensis''
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, 1957 – Mount Elba snake-eyed lizard
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Ophisops elegans''
Ménétries, 1832 – snake-eyed lizard
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Ophisops jerdonii''
Blyth, 1853 – Jerdon's cabrita, Jerdon's snake-eye, Punjab snake-eyed lacerta
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Ophisops kutchensis''
Agarwal, Khandekar, Ramakrishnan, Vyas & Giri, 2018 – Kutch small-scaled snake-eye
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Ophisops leschenaultii''
( Milne-Edwards, 1829) – Leschenault's snake-eye, Leschenault’s lacerta, Leschenault's cabrita
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Ophisops microlepis''
Blanford, 1870 – small-scaled lacerta
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Ophisops nictans''
Arnold, 1989 – lesser snake-eyed lacerta
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Ophisops occidentalis''
Boulenger, 1887 – western snake-eyed lizard
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Ophisops pushkarensis''
Agarwal, Khandekar, Ramakrishnan, Vyas & Giri, 2018 – Pushkar small-scaled snake-eye
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Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Ophisops''.
Notes
Further reading
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Boulenger GA (1887). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. Lacertidæ, ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. (Genus "''Ophiops''
ic, p. 72).
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Ménétries É (1832). ''Catalogue raisonné des objets de zoologie recueillis dans un voyage au Caucase et jusqu'aux frontières actuelles de la Perse.'' Saint Petersburg:
Russian Academy of Sciences. 330 pp. (''Ophisops'', new genus, p. 63). (in French).
Lizard genera
Taxa named by Édouard Ménétries
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