Eremias
Genus of lizards
Eremias genus of lizards in the family Lacertidae , the wall lizards. They are native to Asia and southeastern Europe , where they live in desert and steppe regions.[ 2]
Species
Eremias lineolata The following 42 species are recognized.[ 3]
Eremias acutirostris (Boulenger , 1887) – point-snouted racerunnerEremias afghanistanica Böhme & Szczerbak , 1991Eremias andersoni Darevsky & Szczerbak, 1978Eremias argus W. Peters , 1869Eremias arguta (Pallas , 1773) – steppe-runnerEremias aria S.C. Anderson & Leviton , 1967Eremias brenchleyi Günther , 1872Eremias buechneri Bedriaga , 1906Eremias cholistanica Baig & Masroor , 2006Eremias dzungarica Orlova, Poyarkov Jr., Chirikova, Nazarov, Munkhbaatar, Munkhbayar, & Terbish, 2017 – Dzungarian racerunnerEremias fahimii Mozaffari, Ahmadzadeh & Saberi-Pirooz, 2020- Fahimi's racerunner [ 4] Eremias fasciata Blanford , 1874Eremias grammica (Lichtenstein , 1823) – reticulate racerunnerEremias intermedia (Strauch , 1876) Eremias isfahanica Rastegar-Pouyani, Hosseinian, Rafiee, Kami, Rajabizadeh, & Wink, 2016 –Eremias kavirensis Mozaffari & Parham , 2007Eremias kakari Masroor , Khisroon , Khan , and Jablonski , 2020[ 5] Eremias killasaifullahi Masroor, Khan, Nadeem, Amir, Khisroon, & Jablonski, 2022 – Killa Saifullah's racerunnerEremias kokshaaliensis Jeremčenko & Panfilov , 1999Eremias kopetdaghica Szczerbak, 1972 – Kopet Dagh racerunnerEremias lalezharica Moravec , 1994Eremias lineolata (Nikolsky , 1897) – striped racerunnerEremias montana N. Rastegar-Pouyani & E. Rastegar-Pouyani , 2006[ 2] Eremias multiocellata Günther, 1872 – multi-ocellated racerunnerEremias nigrocellata Nikolsky, 1896 – black-ocellated racerunnerEremias nikolskii Bedriaga, 1905 – Kirghiz racerunnerEremias papenfussi Mozaffari, Ahmadzadeh & Parham, 2011 [ 1] Eremias persica Blanford, 1875 Eremias pleskei Nikolsky, 1905 – Pleske's racerunnerEremias przewalskii (Strauch, 1876) – Gobi racerunnerEremias quadrifrons (Strauch, 1876) – Alachan racerunnerEremias rafiqi Masroor, Khan, Nadeem, Amir, Khisroon, & Jablonski, 2022 – Rafiq's racerunnerEremias regeli Bedriaga in Nikolsky, 1905 Eremias roborowskii (Bedriaga, 1912) Eremias scripta (Strauch, 1867) – sand racerunnerEremias strauchi Kessler , 1878Eremias stummeri Wettstein , 1940Eremias suphani Başoğlu & Hellmich , 1980Eremias szczerbaki Jeremčenko, Panfilov & Zarinenko , 1992 – Szczerbak's racerunnerEremias velox (Pallas, 1771) – rapid racerunner, rapid fringe-toed lizardEremias vermiculata Blanford, 1875 – variegated racerunner, Central Asian racerunnerEremias yarkandensis Blanford, 1875 – Yarkand racerunner, Yarkand sandlizard
References
^ a b Mozaffari O et al. (2011). "Eremias papenfussi sp. nov., a new lacertid lizard (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Tehran Province, Iran". Zootaxa 3114 : 57-62.
^ a b Rastegar-Pouyani N, Rastegar-Pouyani E (2001). "A new species of Eremias (Sauria, Lacertidae) from highlands of Kermanshah Province, Western Iran". Archived 2012-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Asiatic Herpetological Research 9 : 107-112.
^ List of Species: Eremias . The Reptile Database.^ Mozaffari, Omid; Ahmadzadeh, Faraham; Saberi-Pirooz, Reihaneh (2020-05-05). "Fahimi's racerunner, a new species of the genus Eremias Fitzinger, 1834 (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Iran" . Zootaxa . 4768 (4): 565–578. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.4768.4.7 . ISSN 1175-5334 . PMID 33055640 . S2CID 218939024 . ^ Masroor, Rafaqat; Khisroon, Muhammad; Khan, Muazzam Ali; Jablonski, Daniel (2020-05-29). "A new species of Eremias (Squamata: Lacertidae) from the arid mountains of Pakistan" . Zootaxa . 4786 (1): 101–121. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.4786.1.8 . ISSN 1175-5334 . PMID 33056500 . S2CID 219757673 .
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Wiegmann AFA (1834). Herpetologia Mexicana, seu descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae, quae itineribus comitis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chr. Guil. Schiede in Museum Zoologicum Berolinense pervenerunt. Pars prima, saurorum species amplectens. Adiecto systematis saurorum prodromo, additisque multis in hunc amphibiorum ordinem observationibus. Berlin: C.G. Luderitz. vi + 54 pp. + Plates I-X. (Eremias , new genus, p. 9 ). (in Latin ). doi :10.5962/bhl.title.119131
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