Biology:Eremias

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Eremias is a 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.[1]

Species

Eremias lineolata

The following 44 species are recognized.[2]

  • Eremias acutirostris (Boulenger, 1887) – point-snouted racerunner
  • Eremias afghanistanica Böhme & Szczerbak, 1991 – Afghan racerunner
  • Eremias andersoni Darevsky & Szczerbak, 1978 – Anderson's racerunner
  • Eremias argus W. Peters, 1869 – Mongolia racerunner
  • Eremias arguta (Pallas, 1773) – steppe-runner
  • Eremias aria S.C. Anderson & Leviton, 1967
  • Eremias brenchleyi Günther, 1872 – Ordos racerunner
  • Eremias buechneri Bedriaga, 1906 – Kaschar racerunner
  • Eremias cholistanica Baig & Masroor, 2006
  • Eremias dzungarica Orlova, Poyarkov Jr., Chirikova, Nazarov, Munkhbaatar, Munkhbayar, & Terbish, 2017 – Dzungarian racerunner
  • Eremias fahimii Mozaffari, Ahmadzadeh & Saberi-Pirooz, 2020- Fahimi's racerunner [3]
  • Eremias fasciata Blanford, 1874 – Sistan racerunner
  • Eremias grammica (Lichtenstein, 1823) – reticulate racerunner
  • Eremias graphica Orlova, Rasegar-Pouyani, Rajabizadeh, Nabizadeh, Poyarkov, Melnikov & Nazarov, 2023[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Rastegar-Pouyani N, Rastegar-Pouyani E (2001). "A new species of Eremias (Sauria, Lacertidae) from highlands of Kermanshah Province, Western Iran". Asiatic Herpetological Research 9: 107-112.
  2. List of Species: Eremias. The Reptile Database.
  3. 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" (in en). Zootaxa 4768 (4): 565–578. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4768.4.7. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33055640. https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4768.4.7. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Orlova, V. F, Rastegar Pouyani, E., Rajabizadeh, M., Nabizadeh, H., Poyarkov, N. A., Melnikov, D. A., Nazarov, R. A. (2023). "Taxonomic diversity of racerunners with descriptions of two new Eremias species (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Central Iran.". Zootaxa 5369 (3): 336-368. 
  5. 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" (in en). Zootaxa 4786 (1): 101–121. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4786.1.8. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33056500. https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4786.1.8. 
  6. Mozaffari O et al. (2011). "Eremias papenfussi sp. nov., a new lacertid lizard (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Tehran Province, Iran". Zootaxa 3114: 57-62.

Further reading

  • 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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