Eremias arguta ( Pallas, 1773 )

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0E2D2B7C-7A96-4CAB-87F2-87A785F88D7F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4929328

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C387F2-FFAC-FF99-FF5B-4FB55783FD61

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Eremias arguta ( Pallas, 1773 )
status

 

Eremias arguta ( Pallas, 1773)

NEOTYPE. ZIL 13205, designated by Szczerbak (1974).

TYPE LOCALITY. “Irtin australiorem, rarius circa M. Caspium” [= southern Irtin, ... Caspian Sea, W Kazakhstan] as given by Pallas (1773); Ural and Emba rivers according to Szczerbak (1974).

DISTRIBUTION. Wide range spanning from the Eastern Europe through Central Asia to NW China and Mongolia. Southern limit formed by Transcaucasia and N Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 91 View FIGURES 86–91. 86 . Confirmed records are from West and East Azerbaijan and Ardabil Prov. Records from Shahrud, Semnan Prov. by Bedriaga (1879) and from “Kuhistan” by Werner (1936) as well as specimens deposited in the ZMB museum allegedly from Tehran are doubtful and require confirmation.

HABITAT. Ahmadzadeh et al. (2008) collected specimens in a harvested barley field. Other reports are from unforested ridges with scanty herbaceous vegetation ( Sobolevsky 1929).

REMARKS. The subspecific status of the Iranian populations is not clear. Geographically closest and the potential candidates are E. a. deserti Gmelin known from the E Transcaucasia and E. a. transcaucasica Darevsky from Armenia. The only record since Anderson (1999) was provided by Ahmadzadeh et al. (2008) who, however, did not determine the animal to any subspecies.

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Lacertidae

Genus

Eremias

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF