Studying morphological and environmental characteristics of the Plateau Snake Skink Ophiomorus nuchalis Nilson and Andrén, 1978 (Sauria: Scincidae) in Central Plateau of Iran

Document Type : Research articles

Authors

• Masood Farhadi Qomi ¹
• Mahboubeh Sadat Hosseinzadeh ²
• Seyed Mahdi Kazemi ³

¹ Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Damghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Damghan, Iran

² Department of Biology, Faculty of science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

³ Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran

10.22067/ijab.v11i2.41757

Keywords

• morphology
• ecology
• habitat
• vegetation
• Characters

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