Eremias

Eremias is a genus of lizards in the family Lacertidae, the wall lizards. They are native to Asia and southeastern Europe, where they live in desert and steppe regions.<ref name=rastegar>Rastegar-Pouyani N, Rastegar-Pouyani E (2001). "A new species of Eremias (Sauria, Lacertidae) from highlands of Kermanshah Province, Western Iran". Template:Webarchive Asiatic Herpetological Research 9: 107-112.</ref>

Species

Eremias lineolata

The following 44 species are recognized.<ref>List of Species: Eremias. The Reptile Database.</ref>

• Eremias acutirostris (Boulenger, 1887) – point-snouted racerunner
• Eremias afghanistanica Böhme & Szczerbak, 1991 – Afghan racerunner
• Eremias andersoni Darevsky & Szczerbak, 1978 – Anderson's racerunner
• Eremias argus W. Peters, 1869 – Mongolia racerunner
• Eremias arguta (Pallas, 1773) – steppe-runner
• Eremias aria S.C. Anderson & Leviton, 1967
• Eremias brenchleyi Günther, 1872 – Ordos racerunner
• Eremias buechneri Bedriaga, 1906 – Kaschar racerunner
• Eremias cholistanica Baig & Masroor, 2006
• Eremias dzungarica Orlova, Poyarkov Jr., Chirikova, Nazarov, Munkhbaatar, Munkhbayar, & Terbish, 2017 – Dzungarian racerunner
• Eremias fahimii Mozaffari, Ahmadzadeh & Saberi-Pirooz, 2020- Fahimi's racerunner <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Eremias fasciata Blanford, 1874 – Sistan racerunner
• Eremias grammica (Lichtenstein, 1823) – reticulate racerunner
• Eremias graphica Orlova, Rasegar-Pouyani, Rajabizadeh, Nabizadeh, Poyarkov, Melnikov & Nazarov, 2023<ref name=":0">Template:Cite journal</ref>

• Eremias intermedia (Strauch, 1876)
• Eremias isfahanica Rastegar-Pouyani, Hosseinian, Rafiee, Kami, Rajabizadeh, & Wink, 2016 –
• Eremias kavirensis Mozaffari & Parham, 2007
• Eremias kakari Masroor, Khisroon, Khan, and Jablonski, 2020<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> – Kakar's racerunner
• Eremias killasaifullahi Masroor, Khan, Nadeem, Amir, Khisroon, & Jablonski, 2022 – Killa Saifullah's racerunner
• Eremias kokshaaliensis Jeremčenko & Panfilov, 1999
• Eremias kopetdaghica Szczerbak, 1972 – Kopet Dagh racerunner
• Eremias lalezharica Moravec, 1994 – Lalezhar racerunner
• Eremias lineolata (Nikolsky, 1897) – striped racerunner
• Eremias montana N. Rastegar-Pouyani & E. Rastegar-Pouyani, 2006<ref name=rastegar/> – mountain racerunner
• Eremias multiocellata Günther, 1872 – multi-ocellated racerunner
• Eremias nigrocellata Nikolsky, 1896 – black-ocellated racerunner
• Eremias nikolskii Bedriaga, 1905 – Kirghiz racerunner
• Eremias papenfussi Mozaffari, Ahmadzadeh & Parham, 2011<ref name=moz>Mozaffari O et al. (2011). "Eremias papenfussi sp. nov., a new lacertid lizard (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Tehran Province, Iran". Zootaxa 3114: 57-62.</ref>
• Eremias persica Blanford, 1875
• Eremias pleskei Nikolsky, 1905 – Pleske's racerunner
• Eremias przewalskii (Strauch, 1876) – Gobi racerunner
• Eremias pseudofasciata Orlova, Rasegar-Pouyani, Rajabizadeh, Nabizadeh, Poyarkov, Melnikov & Nazarov, 2023<ref name=":0" />
• Eremias quadrifrons (Strauch, 1876) – Alachan racerunner
• Eremias rafiqi Masroor, Khan, Nadeem, Amir, Khisroon, & Jablonski, 2022 – Rafiq's racerunner
• Eremias regeli Bedriaga in Nikolsky, 1905
• Eremias roborowskii (Bedriaga, 1912)
• Eremias scripta (Strauch, 1867) – sand racerunner
• Eremias strauchi Kessler, 1878 – Strauch's racerunner
• Eremias stummeri Wettstein, 1940 – Stummer's racerunner
• Eremias suphani Başoğlu & Hellmich, 1980 – Başoğlu's racerunner, Suphan racerunner
• Eremias szczerbaki Jeremčenko, Panfilov & Zarinenko, 1992 – Szczerbak's racerunner
• Eremias velox (Pallas, 1771) – rapid racerunner, rapid fringe-toed lizard
• Eremias vermiculata Blanford, 1875 – variegated racerunner, Central Asian racerunner
• Eremias yarkandensis Blanford, 1875 – Yarkand racerunner, Yarkand sandlizard

Further reading

• Wiegmann AFA (1834). Herpetologia Mexicana, seu descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae, quae itineribus comitis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chr. Guil. Schiede in Museum Zoologicum Berolinense pervenerunt. Pars prima, saurorum species amplectens. Adiecto systematis saurorum prodromo, additisque multis in hunc amphibiorum ordinem observationibus. Berlin: C.G. Luderitz. vi + 54 pp. + Plates I-X. (Eremias, new genus, p. 9). (in Latin). {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}