Further Records of the Plateau Snake Skink Ophiomorus nuchalis Nilson and Andren, 1978 (Sauria: Scincidae) from Isfahan Province, Iran

Two specimens of Ophiomorus nuchalis from the northern part of Isfahan province were collected, one of them on June 6, 2010, and the other one on June 9, 2011. The new records were collected in southern part of the type locality. The habitat of Ophiomorus nuchalis in this region varies greatly from the previous records.Ophiomorus nuchalis is a rare scincid lizard which has already been collected from two localities. The first record is from Andren and Nilson and Andrén (1978). They described this skink as a new species by two specimens collected from N52o11 ،E34o44 in the northern slope of Siah Kooh , near Cheshmeh Shah , Kavir National Park , Iran (Fig. 1, Black (Diamond)). The next two specimens were found in type locality, one in 1999 and the other one in 2000 by Mozaffari. In 2009, Mozaffari recorded this lizard from a new locality, N35o6 42.1 , E51o46 14.5 . This study, presents two new records of this species and their habitat in Isfahan Province for the first time. Two specimens of Ophiomorus nuchalis, one of them collected from Arisman village (ZMGU.2579 (Zoological Museum Gorgan University)) N33o39 27.66 , E52o0 11.67 on June 6, 2010, collected by Seyed Mahdi Kazemi, which is about 120 kilometers away from type locality and the other one (ZMGU.2580), was taken on June 9, 2011, from the village Abouzeid Abad, N33o54 52.13 , E51o45 30.18 , collected by Masood Farhadi Qomi, which is about 100 kilometers away from the type locality.