Eremias intermedia (Strauch, 1876)

Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, Zootaxa 3855 (1), pp. 1-97 : 33-34

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scientific name

Eremias intermedia (Strauch, 1876)
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Eremias intermedia (Strauch, 1876)

LECTOTYPE. ZIL 3664, designated by Szczerbak (1974).

TYPE LOCALITY. Originally “...deserto aralo-caspico”; Kyzyl-Kum, Aralo-Caspian desert, Turkmenistan, by lectotype designation by Szczerbak (1974); detailed discussion on the types was provided by Bauer & Günther (1995).

DISTRIBUTION. S Central Asia, N Afghanistan, extreme NE Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 94 View FIGURES 92–97. 92 . Khorasan Razavi and South Khorasan Prov. The record by Hojati et al. (2009) from Semnan Prov. is questionable .

HABITAT. Arid habitats such as sand dunes and stabilized sands with rodent burrows used as refuge.

REMARKS. Possibly conspecific with E. nigrocellata ( Anderson 1999) .

REFERENCES. Szczerbak (1974); Bauer & Günther (1995); Anderson (1999); Hosseinian Yousefkhani & RastegarPouyani (2013a).

Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.

Bauer, A. M. & Gunther, R. (1995) An annotated type catalogue of the Lacertids in the Zoological Museum, Berlin. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum, Berlin, 71, 37 - 62.

Hojati, V., Kami, H. G., Faghiri, A. & Ahmadzadeh, F. (2009) A morphological study of the Bedriaga plate-tailed gecko, Teratoscincus bedriagai Nikolsky, 1900, in Semnan province of Iran (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Zoology in the Middle East, 46, 113 - 115. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 09397140.2009.10638337

Szczerbak, N. N. (1974) Palearctic lizards. Akademija Nauk Ukrainskoi S. S. R., Istitut Zoologii, Kiev, 296 pp. [in Russian]

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FIGURES 92–97. 92. Eremias fasciata. 93. Eremias grammica. 94. Eremias intermedia. 95. Eremias kavirensis. 96. Eremias kopetdaghica. 97. Eremias lalezharica.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Lacertidae

Genus

Eremias