Eremias pleskei Nikolsky, 1905

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 : 165

Eremias pleskei Nikolsky, 1905 Pleske’s Racerunner

The distribution of this species in Turkey is almost entirely confined to the focal area treated here. First record was by Başoğlu (1945), namely four females caught in 1943 at Başköy (=Aralık), province of Iğdır .

Clark and Clark (1973): 10 km south of Iğdır, 1967; Baran (1980): TaȘburun Köyü Iğdır, 1977, Devlet Üretme Çiftliği (State farm), province of Iğdır, 1969; Norström (1990): Iğdır plain; Franzen and Heckes (1999): northeast of Karabulak (Ağrı) and south of Iğdır, 1990; Baran et al. (2004): Gödekli (nine km SE of Aralık) and five km SW of Aralık, 2000; Tosunoğlu et al. (2011): between Karakoyunlu and Taşburun, Iğdır, 2008; AdaMerOs (web): Aralık, 2012.