Ablepharus Fitzinger, 1823

A western Palearctic genus of small-sized skinks with 10 currently recognized species, two of which occur in Iran. The genus appears sister to the central and east-Asian Asymblepharus, although only one representative of each genus was analyzed (Pyron et al. 2013). For the time being there is no phylogenetic study where both the Iranian species would be included at once.