Eurylepis Blyth, 1854

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, Zootaxa 3855 (1), pp. 1-97 : 45

Eurylepis Blyth, 1854

The name Eurylepis was resurrected from the synonymy of Eumeces by Griffith et al. (2000) for two species from SW Asia— E. taeniolatus and E. poonaensis . The same authors indicate that E. poonaensis may be only a synonym of E. taeniolatus . In that case the genus Eurylepis remains monotypic. The genus differs from Eumeces also in the karyotype ( Kupriyanova 1986).