Eremias

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Eremias
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Eremias przewalskii , Mongolia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Subfamily: Lacertinae
Genus: Eremias
Fitzinger, 1834 [1]

Eremias is a genus of lizards in the family Lacertidae, the wall lizards. They are native to Asia and southeastern Europe, where they live in desert and steppe regions. [2]

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Species

Eremias lineolata Eremias lineolata Lineichataia iashchurka (03).JPG
Eremias lineolata

The following 42 species are recognized. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Mozaffari O et al. (2011). "Eremias papenfussi sp. nov., a new lacertid lizard (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Tehran Province, Iran". Zootaxa3114: 57-62.
  2. 1 2 Rastegar-Pouyani N, Rastegar-Pouyani E (2001). "A new species of Eremias (Sauria, Lacertidae) from highlands of Kermanshah Province, Western Iran". Archived 2012-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Asiatic Herpetological Research9: 107-112.
  3. List of Species: Eremias. The Reptile Database.
  4. Mozaffari, Omid; Ahmadzadeh, Faraham; Saberi-Pirooz, Reihaneh (2020-05-05). "Fahimi's racerunner, a new species of the genus Eremias Fitzinger, 1834 (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Iran". Zootaxa. 4768 (4): 565–578. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4768.4.7. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   33055640. S2CID   218939024.
  5. Masroor, Rafaqat; Khisroon, Muhammad; Khan, Muazzam Ali; Jablonski, Daniel (2020-05-29). "A new species of Eremias (Squamata: Lacertidae) from the arid mountains of Pakistan". Zootaxa. 4786 (1): 101–121. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4786.1.8. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   33056500. S2CID   219757673.

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