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 N52°11 ،E34°44 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, N35°6 42.1 , E51° 46 14.5 . This study, presents two new records of this species and their habitat in Isfahan Province for the first time.