Eremias andersoni Darevsky & Szczerbak, 1978

Eremias andersoni Darevsky & Szczerbak, 1978: 13 .

COMMON NAME. — Anderson’s Racerunner.

HOLOTYPE. — MMTT 1671.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Dashte-Kavir Desert, 45 km East of Namak Lake (34°30’N, 52°40’E) .

DISTRIBUTION. — Dashte-Kavir Desert in Semnan, Qom and Esfahan Provinces (Safaei-Mahroo et al. 2015).

HABITAT. — Isolated areas of semi-stable sands in stony desert. Largely found in the low areas between dunes among grasses and low shrubs (Anderson 1999).

IUCN. — Least concern.

REFERENCES. — Darevsky & Shcherbak (1978); Anderson (1999); Safaei-Mahroo et al. (2015).

REMARK

This species is known only from the holotype and two paratypes. According to morphological evalutions, it shows affinity to Eremias fasciata Blanford, 1874, but its subgeneric position remains unclear (Darevsky & Shcherbak 1978; Anderson 1999).

Eremias isfahanica Rastegar-Pouyani, Hosseinian, Rafiee,