Ophisops

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]

Ophisops
Ophisops leschenaultii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Lacertidae
Subfamily:	Lacertinae
Genus:	Ophisops Ménétries, 1832[1]
Species
See text.

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

Species

The following 11 species are recognized:^[3]

• Ophisops agarwali Patel & Vyas, 2020 – Agarwal’s snake-eye, Agarwal’s lacerta
• Ophisops beddomei (Jerdon, 1870) – Beddome's snake-eye, Beddome’s lacerta
• Ophisops elbaensis K.P. Schmidt & Marx, 1957 – Mount Elba snake-eyed lizard
• Ophisops elegans Ménétries, 1832 – snake-eyed lizard
• Ophisops jerdonii Blyth, 1853 – Jerdon's cabrita, Jerdon's snake-eye, Punjab snake-eyed lacerta
• Ophisops kutchensis Agarwal, Khandekar, Ramakrishnan, Vyas & Giri, 2018 – Kutch small-scaled snake-eye
• Ophisops leschenaultii (Milne-Edwards, 1829) – Leschenault's snake-eye, Leschenault’s lacerta, Leschenault's cabrita
• Ophisops microlepis Blanford, 1870 – small-scaled lacerta
• Ophisops nictans Arnold, 1989 – lesser snake-eyed lacerta
• Ophisops occidentalis Boulenger, 1887 – western snake-eyed lizard
• Ophisops pushkarensis Agarwal, Khandekar, Ramakrishnan, Vyas & Giri, 2018 – Pushkar small-scaled snake-eye

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". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 134 (2): 29-184.
3. Genus Ophisops at 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).