Eremias strauchi Kessler, 1878

Keywords., John Mulder, 2019, Annotated checklist of the herpetofauna (Amphibia, Reptilia) of Mount Ararat and surroundings, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 175) 13 (1), pp. 162-172 : 166

Eremias strauchi Kessler, 1878 Strauch’s Racerunner

The distribution of this species in Turkey is entirely restricted to the focal area under consideration here and encompasses the plains around the foot of Mount Ararat and along the river Aras. The locality “east of Karakurt” in the Aras valley mentioned by Mulder (1995) is the westernmost finding of the species in Turkey.

Mertens (1952): Tuzluca; Baran (1980): Devlet Üretme Çiftliği (State farm), province of Iğdır, 1969 and Çilli Geçidi, Doğubayazıt, 1975 and TaȘburun Köyü Iğdır, 1977; Clark and Clark (1973): 10 km south of Iğdır, 1967; Norström (1990): plain of Iğdır; Mulder (1995): plain south of Iğdır, 1990 and east of Karakurt, 1989; AdaMerOs (web): Doğubayazıt, 2011; Franzen and Heckes (1999): northeast of Karabulak (Ağrı), 1990 and 25 km northwest of Iğdır and south of Iğdır; Baran et al. (2004): Gödekli (nine km southeast of Aralık), TorulpaȘa Kışası, Aralık and five km southwest of Aralık, 2000; AdaMerOs (web): Tuzluca, 2011; Tosunoğlu et al. (2011): between Karakoyunlu and Taşburun, Iğdır, 2008.