Home - Taxonomy - Geography - Biodiversity - Literature - Purchase RepFocus Recent updates Related bibliographies: Reptiles Lizards Lacertidae Africa Asia Europe Middle East Taxonomy of the genus Ophisops Biodiversity of the family Lacertidae Bibliography of the genus Ophisops (Snake-eyed Lizards) (Reptilia: Sauria: Lacertidae) Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted. Ophisops in general Agarwal, I.; Ramakrishnan, U. 2017. A phylogeny of open-habitat lizards (Squamata: Lacertidae: Ophisops) supports the antiquity of Indian grassy biomes. Journal of Biogeography 44(9): 2021-2032 Arnold, E.N. 1989. Towards a phylogeny and biogeography of the Lacertidae: relationships within an Old-World family of lizards derived from morphology. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 55(2): 209-257. Bader, T.; Kopeczky, R.; Riegler, C.; Wieland, F. 2016. Die Eidechsen Armeniens – Teil 2: Die Gattungen Lacerta, Ophisops, Parvilacerta und Eremias. Die Eidechse 27(2): 33-46. Bischoff, W. 1991. Übersicht der Arten und Unterarten der Familie Lacertidae. 4. Die Gattungen Latastia, Meroles, Mesalina, Nucras, Ophisops, Pedioplanis und Philochortus. Die Eidechse 2(4): 17-25. Bischoff, W. 2003. Die Eidechsenfauna Georgiens. Teil I. Allgemeine Bemerkungen, sowie die Gattungen Eremias, Ophisops und Lacerta. Die Eidechse 14(2): 44-60. Corti, C.; Bischoff, W.; Böhme, W. 1999. Die Lacertiden der Mittelmeer-Inseln. Ein erste Übersicht. Die Eidechse 10(2): 41-58. Ophisops beddomii Tiwari, K.K.; Sharma, R.C. 1971. Reptiles of western Maharashtra. Journal of the Zoological Society of India 22(1-2) [1970]: 101-115. Vyas, R. 2003. First record of Ophisops beddomei (Jerdon, 1870) from Gujarat State, western India. Hamadryad 27(2): 280-281. Vyas, R. 2007. Herpetofauna of Purna Wildlife Sanctuary, Gujarat, India. Reptile RAP 8: 10-15. Ophisops elbaensis Milto, K.D.; Melnikov, D.A.; Nazarov, R.A.; Saber, S.A.; Nagy, A. 2018. Geographic distribution: Ophisops elbaensis (Mount Elba Snake-eyed Lizard). Herpetological Review 49(4): 716. Ophisops elegans Akkaya, A.; Ugurtas, I.H. 2006. The feeding biology of Ophisops elegans Menetries, 1832 (Reptilia: Lacertidae) populations of the Bursa region. Turkish Journal of Zoology 30(4): 357-360. Baha el Din, S.M. 1992. Notes on the herpetology of north Sinai. British Herpetological Society Bulletin 41: 9-11. Baran, I. 1982. [Zur Taxonomie der Ophisops elegans (Reptilia, Lacertidae) aus West- und Südanatolien]. (In Turkish, German summary). Doga Bilim Dergisi: Temel Bilm. 6(2): 19-26. Baran, I.; Budak, A. 1978. [A new form of Ophisops elegans (Lacertidae, Reptilia), from Anatolia]. (In Turkish, English summary). Journal of the Faculty of Science Ege University (B) 2(2): 185-192. Bhatnagar, A.N.; Yoniss, Y.T. 1976. A proof of female heterogamety in a lacertid lizard, Ophisops elegans. Cytologia 41(3-4): 507-511. Boulenger, G.A. 1918. On the varieties of the lizard Ophiops elegans Mén. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 9) 2: 158-162. Bringsoe, H. 1986. A check-list of Peloponnesian amphibians and reptiles, including new records from Greece. Annales Musei Goulandris 7: 271-318. Calabresi, E. 1923. Missione zoologica del Dr. E. Festa in Cirenaica. Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino 38(7): 1-28. Chirio, L.; Blanc, C.P. 1993. Existence in parapatry of two species of Ophisops in Algeria (Aures): zoogeographical implications. Amphibia-Reptilia 14(4): 341-347. Darevsky, I.S.; Beutler, A. 1981. Ophisops elegans Ménétriés 1832 - Schlangenauge. pp. 461-477. In: Böhme, W. (ed.). Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas. Band 1. Echsen (Sauria) 1. (Gekkonidae, Agamidae, Chamaeleonidae, Anguidae, Amphisbaenidae, Scincidae, Lacertidae 1). Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Wiesbaden. 520 pp. Demetriades, L.; Dimitropoulos, A. 1991. The amphibians and reptiles of the south east Aegean. Pt. 1 - Nisyros. Herptile 16(4): 176-177. Esterbauer, H. 1983. Ophisops elegans, die Schlangenaugen-Eidechse. DATZ (Die Aquarien- und Terrarien-Zeitschrift) 36(1): 35-36. Esterbauer, H. 1986. Die Schlangenaugen-Eidechse Ophisops elegans schlueteri. Lebensraum, Verhalten, Pflege und Zucht. Aquarien Magazin 20(11): 467-470. Esterbauer, H. 2003. Sägeschrecke frisst Schlangenauge. Die Eidechse 14(1): 27. Franzen, M. 1986. Zur winterlichen Aktivität einiger Echsen in der südlichen Türkei. Herpetofauna (Weinstadt) 8(45): 6-10. Gharzi, A.; Yari, A. 2013. Age determination in the Snake-eyed Lizard, Ophisops elegans, by means of skeletochronology (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Zoology in the Middle East 59(1): 10-15. Grano, M.; Cattaneo, C.; Cattaneo, A. 2015. First observations on the herpetological and theriological fauna of Alimia Island (Rhodes Archipelago, Aegean Sea). Biodiversity Journal 6(1): 73-78. Haas, G. 1952. Two collections of reptiles from Iraq, with descriptions of two new forms. Copeia 1952: 20-22. Kasot, N. 2016. Field notes on trophic spectrum of Dolichophis jugularis from northern Cyprus. Biharean Biologist 10(2): 153-155. Lantz, L.A. 1931. Note sur la forme typique d'Ophisops elegans Menetries. Bull. Mus. Georgie Tiflis 6: 31-42. Mazanaeva, L.F.; Orlova, V.F. 2009. [New records of lizards (Sauria: Lacertidae, Scincidae) in Dagestan]. (In Russian). Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody Otdel Biologicheskii 114(4): 63-66. Midtgaard, R. 1991. Det Europæiske Slangeøjefirben (Ophisops elegans). [The European Snake-eyed Lizard (Ophisops elegans)]. (In Danish). Nordisk Herpetologisk Forening 34(6): 124-127. Mienis, H.K. 1986. Predation on a snake-eyed lizard by a hoopoe. Ornithological Society of the Middle East Bulletin 16: 14. Moravec, J. 1998. Taxonomic and faunistic notes on the herpetofauna of Syria (Reptilia). Faunistische Abhandlungen (Dresden) 21(Supplement): 99-106. Muskhelishvili, T.A. 1962. [New data on the distribution of Ophisops elegans Mén. within Georgia]. (In Russian). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 41: 1579-1580. Muskhelishvili, T.A. 1968. [On the resettlement and the rate of growth of Ophisops elegans Ménétries in the environs of Tbilisi]. (In Russian). Soobshcheniya Akademii Nauk Georg. SSR 50: 223-226. Nemenz, H. 1958. Ophisops elegans im Terrarium. DATZ (Die Aquarien- und Terrarien-Zeitschrift) 11: 215-216. Odierna, G.; Kupriyanova, L.; Capriglione, T.; Olmo, E. 1993. Further data on sex chromosomes of Lacertidae and a hypothesis on their evolutionary trend. Amphibia-Reptilia 14(1): 1-11. Oktem, N. 1963. [Investigations on the subspecific division of Ophisops elegans Ménétriés in Turkey and its biology in Izmir region]. (In Turkish, English summary). Sci. Rep. Fac. Sci. Ege Univ. 14: 1-47. Olgun, K.; Tok, C.V. 1999. Ihlara Vadisi (Aksaray)'nden toplanan Ophisops elegans (Sauria: Lacertidae) ornekleri hakkinda [Specimens of Ophisops elegans (Sauria: Lacertidae) collected from Ihlara Valley (Aksaray)] (In Turkish, English summary). Turkish Journal of Zoology 23(Turkish Supplement 3): 807-810. Oraie, H.; Rahimian, H.; Rastegar-Pouyani, N.; Khosravani, A.; Rastegar-Pouyani, E. 2013. Sexual size dimorphism in Ophisops elegans (Squamata: Lacertidae) in Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 59(4): 302-307. Oraie, H.; Rahimian, H.; Rastegar-Pouyani, N.; Rastegar-Pouyani, E.; Gentile, F.F.; Yousefkhani, S.S.H.; Khosravani, A. 2014. Distribution pattern of the Snake-eyed Lizard, Ophisops elegans Menetries, 1832 (Squamata: Lacertidae), in Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 60(2): 125-132. Oraie, H.; Rahimian, H.; Rastegar-Pouyani, N.; Rastegar-Pouyani, E.; Khosravani, A. 2012. The easternmost record of Ophisops elegans (Sauria: Lacertidae) in Iran. Herpetology Notes 5: 469-470. Ozeti, N.; Cevik, E.; Arikan, H. 1987. On the variation of the morphological and serological characteristics of some Turkish Ophisops elegans macrodactylus (Lacertidae-Reptilia) populations. Biologia Gallo-Hellenica 13: 169-172. Panner, T. 2007. Beobachtungen an Lacertiden in Ostanatolien. Die Eidechse 18(1): 1-12. Perez-Mellado, V.; Valakos, E.D.; Guerrero, F.; Gil-Costa, M.J. 1993. Ecological similarity of lacertid lizards in the Mediterranean region. The case of Ophisops elegans and Psammodromus hispanicus. pp. 231-242. In: Valakos, E.D.; Böhme, W.; Perez-Mellado, V. & Maragou, P. (eds.). Lacertids of the Mediterranean region. A biological approach. Hellenic Zoological Society, Athens, Greece. 281 pp. Poulakakis, N.; Kapli, P.; Kardamaki, A.; Skourtanioti, E.; Göcmen, B.; Ilgaz, C.; Kumlutas, Y.; Avci, A.; Lymberakis, P. 2013. Comparative phylogeography of six herpetofauna species in Cyprus: late Miocene to Pleistocene colonization routes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 108(3): 619-635. Rastegar-Pouyani, N.; Amini, A.; Torki, F. 2009. Spermatogenesis timing durability in lizards: Ophisops elegans (Sauria: Lacertidae) in Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 5(1): 25-32. Roussos, S.A. 2016. Geographic distribution: Ophisops elegans (Snake-eyed Lizard). Herpetological Review 47(2): 259. Schluter, U. 1996. Das Schlangenauge. Aquarium (Bornheim) 322: 26. Schlüter, U. 2004. Die Lacertiden von Rhodos. Die Eidechse 15(3): 69-78. Sideris, G.; Duperault, A. 2003. New herpetofaunal records for Psara and neighboring islands, Aegean Sea, Greece. Herpetological Review 34(3): 266-269. Strijbosch, H.; Winden, J. van der 1999. Ecological restrictions in Ophisops elegans (Sauria: Lacertidae) of mainland Greece. Contributions to the Zoogeography and Ecology of the Eastern Mediterranean Region 1: 237-242. Tamar, K.; Maza, E.; Meiri, S. 2013. Natural history notes: Ophisops elegans (Snake-eyed Lizard). Bifurcation. Herpetological Review 44(1): 146. Tok, C.V. 1992. [Taxonomical status of central Anatolia Ophisops elegans (Sauria: Lacertidae) population]. (In Turkish, English summary). Doga Turk Zooloji Dergisi 16(3): 405-414. Tok, C.V. 1993. On the samples of Ophisops elegans (Sauria: Lacertidae) collected in the vicinity of Beysehir. Doga Turk Zooloji Dergisi 17(4): 511-518. Tok, C.V.; Afsar, M.; Yakin, B.Y.; Ayaz, D.; Çiçek, K. 2017. A new subspecies, Ophisops elegans budakibarani n. subsp. (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Mut (Mersin/Turkey). Biharean Biologist 11(1): 27-32. Tok, C.V.; Cevik, I.E.; Sayman, A. 1996. Guneybati Anadolu'dan toplanan Ophisops elegans (Sauria: Lacertidae) ornekleri hakkinda. [On the samples of Ophisops elegans (Sauria: Lacertidae) collected from southwest Anatolia.] (In Turkish, English summary). Turkish Journal of Zoology 20(Supplement): 285-291. 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Species richness of montane herpetofauna of southern Eastern Ghats, India: a historical resume and a descriptive checklist. Russian Journal of Herpetology 23(1): 7-24. Ophisops occidentalis Chirio, L.; Blanc, C.P. 1993. Existence in parapatry of two species of Ophisops in Algeria (Aures): zoogeographical implications. Amphibia-Reptilia 14(4): 341-347. Schlüter, U. 2003. Zur Kenntnis des Westlichen Schlangenauges, Ophisops occidentalis (Boulenger, 1887). Elaphe 11(3): 56-63. Ophisops pushkarensis Agarwal, I.; Khandekar, A.; Ramakrishnan, U.; Vyas, R.; Giri, V.B. 2018. Two new species of the Ophisops microlepis (Squamata: Lacertidae) complex from northwestern India with a key to Indian Ophisops. Journal of Natural History 52(13-26): 819-847.