Ophisops

Ophisops
Ophisops leschenaultii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
Family:	Lacertidae
Subfamily:	Lacertinae
Genus:	Ophisops Ménétries, 1832[1]
Species
See text.

Unidentified Ophisops species (O. beddomei ?) from Bhimashankar hills, Maharashtra

Ophisops is a genus of wall lizards of the family 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 of the genus Ophisops are distributed in southeast Europe, northeast Africa, to west Asia.^[2]

Species

The following eight species are recognized:^[3]

• Ophisops beddomei (Jerdon, 1870)
• Ophisops elbaensis K.P. Schmidt & Marx, 1957
• Ophisops elegans Ménétries, 1832
• Ophisops jerdonii Blyth, 1853
• Ophisops leschenaultii (Milne-Edwards, 1829)
• Ophisops microlepis Blanford, 1870
• Ophisops minor Deraniyagala, 1971
• Ophisops occidentalis Boulenger, 1887

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Ophisops.

Notes

1. "Ophisops ". Dahms Tierleben www.dahmstierleben.de
2. Minton SA Jr (1966). "A contribution to the herpetology of West Pakistan". Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. 134 (2): 29-184.
3. "Ophisops ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

• 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 [sic]", p. 72).
• 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).