Eremias kavirensis Mozaffari & Parham, 2007

Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, Zoosystema 40 (24), pp. 507-537 : 519

Eremias kavirensis Mozaffari & Parham, 2007

Eremias kavirensis Mozaffari & Parham, 2007: 569 .

COMMON NAME. — Kavir Desert Lacerta.

HOLOTYPE. — MMTT / AHI 1008 , CAS 238636 .

TYPE LOCALITY. — Maranjab sand dunes, 34°17’51”N, 51°50’57”E, Esfahan Province .

DISTRIBUTION. — Only currently known from the type locality and believed to be a restricted-range species.

IUCN. — Least concern.

REFERENCE. — Mozaffari & Parham (2007).

HABITAT. — This species is believed to be endemic to the Maranjab sand dune habitat. Animals are found in the sand dunes, and are not present in surrounding gravelly areas. The dune weed Stipagrostis pennata De Winter, 1963 dominates the vegetation at the type locality. E. kavirensis is presumably an egg-laying species.

REMARK

This species can be differentiated from Eremias grammica (Lichtenstein, 1883) by having enlarged tibial scales and from E. acutirostris (Boulenger, 1887) by having scales of the flank larger than those of the back as well as having two rows of enlarged tibial scales instead of one.