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Eremias fasciata Blanford 1874

Description

Eremias fasciata Blanford, 1874

LECTOTYPE. ZMB 9329, designated by Szczerbak (1974).

TYPE LOCALITY. “Karman et Gedrosia” [= Kerman and Baluchistan]; restricted to Saidabad [Zeydabad], SW of Kerman by Smith (1935), but later Szczerbak (1974) designated a lectotype from Kerman, although elsewhere in his paper (p. 245) he still gives Saidabad as the type locality.

DISTRIBUTION. E Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 92. All provinces east of the 55° meridian and south of the Kopet Dagh. The record by Mozaffari & Parham (2007) from Esfahan Prov. and that in the Vienna museum (NHMW 36761) from Kashan are dubious. More plausibly they could be a misidentified E. andersoni distributed in the area and having the same dorsal colour pattern of alternating dark and light longitudinal stripes.

HABITAT. Sandy or gravelly plains or silty alluvia with scattered steppe shrubby vegetation (Acacia, Alhagi, Artemisia, Tamarix) under which these lizards seek refuge.

REFERENCES. Smith (1935); Szczerbak (1974); Anderson (1999).

Notes

Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHMW , ZMB
Material sample ID
NHMW 36761 , ZMB 9329
Scientific name authorship
Blanford
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Squamata
Family
Lacertidae
Genus
Eremias
Species
fasciata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Eremias fasciata Blanford, 1874 sec. Šmíd, Moravec, Kodym, Kratochvíl, Yousefkhani, Rastegar-Pouyani & Frynta, 2014

References

  • Szczerbak, N. N. (1974) Palearctic lizards. Akademija Nauk Ukrainskoi S. S. R., Istitut Zoologii, Kiev, 296 pp. [in Russian]
  • Smith, M. A. (1935) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II. Sauria. Taylor and Francis, Ltd., Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London, 440 pp. [Reprint Edition 1974, Today and Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers]
  • Mozaffari, O. & Parham, J. F. (2007) A new species of racerunner lizard (Lacertidae: Eremias) from Iran. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 58, 569 - 573.
  • Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.