Eremias grammica ( Lichtenstein, 1823 )

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

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Eremias grammica ( Lichtenstein, 1823)

LECTOTYPE. ZMB 1095 View Materials , designated by Szczerbak (1974).

TYPE LOCALITY. “...östlich vom Aralsee...Karakum und Kisilkum” [= East of the Aral Sea, Karakum, and Kyzyl-Kum, Turkmenistan]; lectotype from Karakum , Turkmenistan .

DISTRIBUTION. NE Iran, Central Asian republics, W China. The distribution of E. grammica seems virtually identical to those of E. intermedia , E. lineolata , and E. scripta ( Sindaco & Jeremčenko 2008) .

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 93 View FIGURES 92–97. 92 . Restricted to NE Iran to an area by the Afghan borders and just S of the Kopet Dagh.

HABITAT. Sand dunes and still-loose sands with psammophilous vegetation ( Haloxylon , Tamarix ).

REMARKS. Closely related to E. pleskei from S Transcaucasia and NW Iran ( Pyron et al. 2013).

REFERENCES. Szczerbak (1974); Anderson (1999); Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2012c).

References

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

Hosseinian Yousefkhani, S. S., Rastegar-Pouyani, E., Shahrestanaki, A. K., Yousefi, M. & Zarrintab, M. (2012 c) Cutting off the Haloxylon shrubs in the vicinity of Gonabad has severe effects on Eremias grammica (Lichtenstein, 1823) habitat in Khorasan, Iran. Available from: http: // lacerta. de / AS / Artikel. php? Article = 148 (accessed 8 July 2014)

Lichtenstein, M. H. C. (1823) Verzeichniss der Doubletten des zoologischen Museums der Koniglichen Universitat zu Berlin nebst Beschreibung vieler bisher unbekannter Arten von Saugethieren, Vogeln, Amphibien und Fischen. T. Trautwein, Berlin, 118 pp.

Pyron, R., Burbrink, F. & Wiens, J. (2013) A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13, 93. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1186 / 1471 - 2148 - 13 - 93

Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V. K. (2008) The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated checklist and distributional atlas of the turtles, crocodiles, amphisbaenians and lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. Monografie della Societas Herpetologica Italica, Edizioni Belvedere, 579 pp.

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