Eremias

Eremias
Eremias przewalskii , Mongolia
Scientific classification
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]

Species

Eremias lineolata

The following 44 species are recognized. ^[3]

• Eremias acutirostris (Boulenger, 1887)– point-snouted racerunner
• Eremias afghanistanica Böhme & Szczerbak, 1991– Afghan racerunner
• Eremias andersoni Darevsky & Szczerbak, 1978– Anderson's racerunner
• Eremias argus W. Peters, 1869– Mongolia racerunner
• Eremias arguta (Pallas, 1773)– steppe-runner
• Eremias aria S.C. Anderson & Leviton, 1967
• Eremias brenchleyi Günther, 1872– Ordos racerunner
• Eremias buechneri Bedriaga, 1906– Kaschar racerunner
• Eremias cholistanica Baig & Masroor, 2006
• Eremias dzungarica Orlova, Poyarkov Jr., Chirikova, Nazarov, Munkhbaatar, Munkhbayar, & Terbish, 2017– Dzungarian racerunner
• Eremias fahimii Mozaffari, Ahmadzadeh & Saberi-Pirooz, 2020- Fahimi's racerunner ^[4]
• Eremias fasciata Blanford, 1874– Sistan racerunner
• Eremias grammica (Lichtenstein, 1823)– reticulate racerunner
• Eremias graphica Orlova, Rasegar-Pouyani, Rajabizadeh, Nabizadeh, Poyarkov, Melnikov & Nazarov, 2023 ^[5]

• Eremias intermedia (Strauch, 1876)
• Eremias isfahanica Rastegar-Pouyani, Hosseinian, Rafiee, Kami, Rajabizadeh, & Wink, 2016–
• Eremias kavirensis Mozaffari & Parham, 2007
• Eremias kakari Masroor, Khisroon, Khan, and Jablonski, 2020 ^[6] – Kakar's racerunner
• Eremias killasaifullahi Masroor, Khan, Nadeem, Amir, Khisroon, & Jablonski, 2022 – Killa Saifullah's racerunner
• Eremias kokshaaliensis Jeremčenko & Panfilov, 1999
• Eremias kopetdaghica Szczerbak, 1972– Kopet Dagh racerunner
• Eremias lalezharica Moravec, 1994– Lalezhar racerunner
• Eremias lineolata (Nikolsky, 1897)– striped racerunner
• Eremias montana N. Rastegar-Pouyani & E. Rastegar-Pouyani, 2006 ^[2] – mountain racerunner
• Eremias multiocellata Günther, 1872– multi-ocellated racerunner
• Eremias nigrocellata Nikolsky, 1896– black-ocellated racerunner
• Eremias nikolskii Bedriaga, 1905– Kirghiz racerunner
• Eremias papenfussi Mozaffari, Ahmadzadeh & Parham, 2011 ^[1]
• Eremias persica Blanford, 1875
• Eremias pleskei Nikolsky, 1905– Pleske's racerunner
• Eremias przewalskii (Strauch, 1876)– Gobi racerunner
• Eremias pseudofasciata Orlova, Rasegar-Pouyani, Rajabizadeh, Nabizadeh, Poyarkov, Melnikov & Nazarov, 2023 ^[5]
• Eremias quadrifrons (Strauch, 1876)– Alachan racerunner
• Eremias rafiqi Masroor, Khan, Nadeem, Amir, Khisroon, & Jablonski, 2022 – Rafiq's racerunner
• Eremias regeli Bedriaga in Nikolsky, 1905
• Eremias roborowskii (Bedriaga, 1912)
• Eremias scripta (Strauch, 1867)– sand racerunner
• Eremias strauchi Kessler, 1878– Strauch's racerunner
• Eremias stummeri Wettstein, 1940– Stummer's racerunner
• Eremias suphani Başoğlu & Hellmich, 1980– Başoğlu's racerunner, Suphan racerunner
• Eremias szczerbaki Jeremčenko, Panfilov & Zarinenko, 1992– Szczerbak's racerunner
• Eremias velox (Pallas, 1771)– rapid racerunner, rapid fringe-toed lizard
• Eremias vermiculata Blanford, 1875– variegated racerunner, Central Asian racerunner
• Eremias yarkandensis Blanford, 1875– Yarkand racerunner, Yarkand sandlizard

References

1. Mozaffari O et al. (2011). "Eremias papenfussi sp. nov., a new lacertid lizard (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Tehran Province, Iran". Zootaxa3114: 57-62.
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. Orlova, V. F, Rastegar Pouyani, E., Rajabizadeh, M., Nabizadeh, H., Poyarkov, N. A., Melnikov, D. A., Nazarov, R. A. (2023). "Taxonomic diversity of racerunners with descriptions of two new Eremias species (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Central Iran". Zootaxa. 5369 (3): 336–368.
6. 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.

Further reading

• Wiegmann AFA (1834). Herpetologia Mexicana, seu descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae, quae itineribus comitis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chr. Guil. Schiede in Museum Zoologicum Berolinense pervenerunt. Pars prima, saurorum species amplectens. Adiecto systematis saurorum prodromo, additisque multis in hunc amphibiorum ordinem observationibus. Berlin: C.G. Luderitz. vi + 54 pp. + Plates I-X. (Eremias, new genus, p.  9). (in Latin). doi : 10.5962/bhl.title.119131