Eremias lalezharica Moravec, 1994

Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, Zoosystema 40 (24), pp. 507-537 : 519

Eremias lalezharica Moravec, 1994

Eremias lalezharica Moravec, 1994: 61 .

COMMON NAME. — Lalehzar Racerunner.

HOLOTYPE. — NMP6 V 34555 /3.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Lalezhar, Kerman Province.

DISTRIBUTION. — In addition to the localities of the holotype and paratypes, Hosseinian Yousefkhani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2013) found a new locality for Eremias lalezharica on the road from Jiroft to Darb-e Behesht, in the Babgorgi region , 100 km to the South East of the terra typica along the Lalehzar Mountains, with coordinates 29°05’N, 57°32’E, and an elevation of 2890 m .

HABITAT. — E. lalezharica has been recorded from a mountain plateau with degraded steppe habitat, rural gardens and fields and wet meadows. Specimens were collected in open fields of soil and stones washed down the slopes of Mount Lalehzar. Animals were observed along the banks of an irrigation ditch and in the vicinity of irrigated gardens ( Moravec 1994; Anderson 1999).

IUCN. — Least concern.

REFERENCES. — Moravec (1994); Anderson (1999); Hosseinian Yousefkhani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2013).