Šmíd, Jiří;Moravec, Jiří;Kodym, Petr;Kratochvíl, Lukáš;Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian;Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar;Frynta, Daniel
Ophisops
Sign in to savethumb|right|Unidentified Ophisops species (O. beddomei ?) from Bhimashankar hills, Maharashtra
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassSquamata
- FamilyLacertidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 29
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Lacertidae
- Collections
- USNM, CAS, CM, UCMP, AMNH, UMZC
- Recorded in
- Greece, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Cyprus
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Lacertinae
- Image
- OphisopsLeschenaultii.jpg
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- Ophisops
- taxon name
- Ophisops
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- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Ophisops
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- Ophisops
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thumb|right|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.
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