Eremias kopetdaghica Szczerbak, 1972

HOLOTYPE. ZIK 4.

TYPE LOCALITY. Vicinity of Ai-Dere-Tuzli-Tepe, Kara-Kalinskii, Turkmenistan.

DISTRIBUTION. N Iran, and S Turkmenistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 96. Throughout the Kopet Dagh and adjoining areas (Golestan, Semnan, North Khorasan, and Khorasan Razavi Prov.) .

HABITAT. Rocky submontane regions with scattered stones and boulders and with Astragalus and Artemisia shrubs (Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. 2013e).

REMARKS. Considered a subspecies of E. strauchi until its recent elevation to a species level (Rastegar-Pouyani et al. in press).

REFERENCES. Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2013e); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (in press).