Eremias montana Rastegar-Pouyani & Rastegar-Pouyani, 2001

HOLOTYPE. Only a field number given, P168.

TYPE LOCALITY. 60 km NE of Kermanshah, Kermanshah Prov., Iran .

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 99. Apart from two localities in Kermanshah Prov. known from the locality Qorveh in Kordestan Prov.

HABITAT. Highland steppe in the Zagros Mountains at 1800 m elevation with luxuriant vegetation of Amigdalus, Artemisia, Astragalus, Euphorbia and various grass species.

REMARKS. A member of the E. persica species complex. It belongs together with a central Zagros population of E. persica and an undescribed species from Ardabil Prov. to a basal group sister to the remaining E. persica complex populations (Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2010b). Since the gender of Eremias is feminine (Sindaco et al. 2013), the name should be spelled as ‘ montana ’, not ‘ montanus ’ as it appears in the original description.

REFERENCES. Rastegar-Pouyani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2001); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2010b); Bahmani et al. (2011).