Eremias lalezharica Moravec, 1994

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 : 34

Eremias lalezharica Moravec, 1994

HOLOTYPE. NMP6 V 34555 /3.

TYPE LOCALITY. Lalezhar [Laleh Zar], Kerman Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 97 . Kerman Prov.; until recently known only from the type locality, second distribution record was published by Hosseinian Yousefkhani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2013b) .

HABITAT. The types were collected in open fields with large solitary stones washed down from the slopes of Mt. Lalehzar. The area is a degraded steppe with vegetation consisting of Artemisia herba-alba , Astragalus , Ferula , Salvia , and Zygophyllum ; and gardens and fields with Ligurus sativus and poplar, wet meadows with Carex , Eleocharis , Juncus , Mentha , Orchis , and Pedicularis . The new locality by Hosseinian Yousefkhani & RastegarPouyani (2013b) at 2890 m of altitude is characterized by a cold montane climate with relatively wet conditions.

REFERENCES. Moravec (1994); Anderson (1999); Hosseinian Yousefkhani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2013b).

Figures

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