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Ophisops elegans
Menetries,1832
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- Chromosome number: 2n= 38 (Stepanyan, 2002)
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Distribution in Armenia
Altitudes: 800-1800 (2300) m above sea level.
Regions: Shirak, Armavir, Aragatsotn, Yerevan,
Kotayk, Ararat, Vayots dzor, Syunik, Tawoush
Habitats: Rocklands covered by phryganoid
vegetation, stony semideserts
Areal type: Eastern-Mediterranean
Global distribution:
Europe: SE Bulgaria, NE Greece
(Lesbos, Limnos, Chios, Samos, Samothraki, Agathonisi), Cyprus, Turkey,
E Georgia,
Asia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, W Syria, Lebanon,
Israel, W Jordan,
Iraq, Iran (Kavir desert), N Pakistan, NW India
Africa: Algeria, Libya, Egypt.
Food: arthropods
Enemies:carnivor mammals and birds,
snakes and large lizards, man.
Parasites:
Known trend: not abjective data is
available (presumably common)
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References:
Ananjeva, N.B., Orlov N.L., Khalikov R.G., Darevsky,
I.S., Rjabov S.A., Barabanov A.V., 2004. Atlas
of Reptiles of Northern Eurasia, "Ivan Fedorov" Print, St.
Pererbourg, Russia, 230 pp.
Aslanyan A.V., 2004. An
Ecologo-Faunistic Analysis of The Lizards of Armenia. PhD candidate
thesys. 172 pp.
Chernov S.A.,
1939. [Herpetological
Fauna of Armenian SSR and Nakhichevan ASSR] // Zoological Papers,
Vol I, (Transactions of Biological Institure, Vol. III). Edition of
Armenian Brunch of The USSR Academy of Scienecs, Erevan, 1939, pp.
77-194. (In Russian)
Darevsky I.S., 1957.
The Fauna of Reptiles of Armenia and Its Zoogeographical Analysis.
PhD Thesis, Yerevan, 468 pp.
- Stepanyan I.E., 2002, Study on Systematic Relationsheep
Among Some Reptiles of Armenia./ Thesys of The Doctor of Biology, Institute
of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Republic of Armenia, Yerevan,
26 pp.
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