Eremias kopetdaghica Szczerbak, 1972

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 kopetdaghica Szczerbak, 1972

HOLOTYPE. ZIK 4 .

TYPE LOCALITY. Vicinity of Ai-Dere-Tuzli-Tepe, Kara-Kalinskii, Turkmenistan.

DISTRIBUTION. N Iran, and S Turkmenistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 96 . Throughout the Kopet Dagh and adjoining areas (Golestan, Semnan, North Khorasan, and Khorasan Razavi Prov. ) .

HABITAT. Rocky submontane regions with scattered stones and boulders and with Astragalus and Artemisia shrubs ( Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. 2013e).

REMARKS. Considered a subspecies of E. strauchi until its recent elevation to a species level (Rastegar-Pouyani et al. in press).

REFERENCES. Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2013e); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (in press).

Figures

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