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]

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

Species

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Eremias lineolata

The following 42 species are recognized.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Mozaffari O et al. (2011). "Eremias papenfussi sp. nov., a new lacertid lizard (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Tehran Province, Iran". Zootaxa 3114: 57-62.
  2. ^ a b 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 Research 9: 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.

Further reading

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  • 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