Diplometopon zarudnyi Nikolsky, 1907

Aloufi, Abdulhadi, Al Zayer, Mohammed, Abu Baker, Mohammad A. & Amr, Zuhair S., 2025, Reptiles and amphibians of the Saudi islands in the Arabian Gulf, Herpetozoa 38, pp. 379-391 : 379-391

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.38.e172180

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A6AB6252-B741-4EC3-8C44-7CB327FCB16B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17805080

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/709B9313-E0EA-507A-866C-8A6E2FEFCDA9

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scientific name

Diplometopon zarudnyi Nikolsky, 1907
status

 

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Materials examined.

Observed: Captured and released, Tarout Island – Al Tauos Farm, 15 November 2025.

Remarks.

This species is distributed across western Iran, southern Iraq, and the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula ( Sindaco and Jeremčenko 2008). Zarudnyi’s Worm Lizard was reported from several localities along the coastal regions of the Arabian Gulf ( Haas 1957, 1961; Martens 1996; Al-Sadoon 2010; Aloufi et al. 2023) and from Abu Ali Island ( Martens 1996).