Eremias nigrocellata Nikolsky, 1896

Jablonski, Daniel, Regan, John M., Holzheuser, Chace, Farooqi, Javeed, Basit, Abdul & Masroor, Rafaqat, 2019, Additional data to the herpetofauna of Afghanistan, Herpetozoa 32, pp. 177-193 : 177

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.32.e38171

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scientific name

Eremias nigrocellata Nikolsky, 1896
status

 

Eremias nigrocellata Nikolsky, 1896

Distribution in Afghanistan.

Known only from northern Afghanistan (provinces Badakhshan, Baghlan, Balkh, Kunduz, Takhar; Wagner et al. 2016).

Our records

( Fig. 5 View Figure 5 ). Kaldar, Balkh (8 October 2011), one adult individual ( Fig. 7A View Figure 7 ) approx. 10 m from a newly dug canal in the stony, semi-desert habitat near the Amu-Darya River ( Fig. 10B View Figure 10 ).

Remarks.

The species is mentioned by Wagner et al. (2016) from the locality " Amu-Darya swamps, nr. Darquad, N of Djangi Quala, [Takhar Prov., 400 m] (ZMK 2562) " but coordinates presented for this locality are the same as for " Amu-Darya, N of Kunduz " (see therein Appendix 1, p. 551). Therefore, the distribution point from Takhar Prov. is not mapped and presented in Fig. 5 View Figure 5 of this study. Our record is currently the northernmost locality of the species in Afghanistan, only ca. 1500 m from the border with Tajikistan and 4000 m from the border with Uzbekistan. Although our record clearly corresponds with the distribution range of the species in the country and colouration and pattern of the species corresponds with E. nigrocellata , we present this record as “affiliated”.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Lacertidae

Genus

Eremias