Beddome's Snake-Eye is a species of lizard

Lizard

Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with nearly 3800 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica as well as most oceanic island chains...

 found in the Western Ghats

Western Ghats

The Western Ghats, Western Ghauts or the Sahyādri is a mountain range along the western side of India. It runs north to south along the western edge of the Deccan Plateau, and separates the plateau from a narrow coastal plain along the Arabian Sea. The Western Ghats block rainfall to the Deccan...

 of India

India

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Description

Very similar to Ophisops jerdonii

Ophisops jerdonii

Jerdon's Snake-Eye is a species of lizard which is distributed in east Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.-Description:...

. Two or three fronto-nasals on a transverse line; one or two azygos prefrontals nearly always present; first and fourth supra-oculars usually broken up into several very small shields or granules. Lateral scales distinctly smaller than dorsals; 28 to 32 scales round the body. Femoral pores 8 to 13. Coloration as in Ophisops jerdonii, but the upper lateral light streak frequently absent.

Distribution

Type locality: Bramagherry Hills (Brahmagiri Hills), Wayanad
Named after Richard Henry Beddome

Richard Henry Beddome

Colonel Richard Henry Beddome was a British military officer in India, chief conservator of the Madras Forest Department and a naturalist...

, 1830-1911, British army officer and botanist.