Eremias intermedia (Strauch, 1876)

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 : 33-34

Eremias intermedia (Strauch, 1876)

LECTOTYPE. ZIL 3664, designated by Szczerbak (1974).

TYPE LOCALITY. Originally “...deserto aralo-caspico”; Kyzyl-Kum, Aralo-Caspian desert, Turkmenistan, by lectotype designation by Szczerbak (1974); detailed discussion on the types was provided by Bauer & Günther (1995).

DISTRIBUTION. S Central Asia, N Afghanistan, extreme NE Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 94 . Khorasan Razavi and South Khorasan Prov. The record by Hojati et al. (2009) from Semnan Prov. is questionable .

HABITAT. Arid habitats such as sand dunes and stabilized sands with rodent burrows used as refuge.

REMARKS. Possibly conspecific with E. nigrocellata ( Anderson 1999) .

REFERENCES. Szczerbak (1974); Bauer & Günther (1995); Anderson (1999); Hosseinian Yousefkhani & RastegarPouyani (2013a).

Figures

FIGURES 92–97. 92. Eremias fasciata. 93. Eremias grammica. 94. Eremias intermedia. 95. Eremias kavirensis. 96. Eremias kopetdaghica. 97. Eremias lalezharica.