Eremias fasciata Blanford, 1874

LECTOTYPE. ZMB 9329, designated by Szczerbak (1974).

TYPE LOCALITY. “Karman et Gedrosia” [= Kerman and Baluchistan]; restricted to Saidabad [Zeydabad], SW of Kerman by Smith (1935), but later Szczerbak (1974) designated a lectotype from Kerman, although elsewhere in his paper (p. 245) he still gives Saidabad as the type locality.

DISTRIBUTION. E Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 92. All provinces east of the 55° meridian and south of the Kopet Dagh. The record by Mozaffari & Parham (2007) from Esfahan Prov. and that in the Vienna museum (NHMW 36761) from Kashan are dubious. More plausibly they could be a misidentified E. andersoni distributed in the area and having the same dorsal colour pattern of alternating dark and light longitudinal stripes .

HABITAT. Sandy or gravelly plains or silty alluvia with scattered steppe shrubby vegetation ( Acacia, Alhagi, Artemisia, Tamarix) under which these lizards seek refuge.

REFERENCES. Smith (1935); Szczerbak (1974); Anderson (1999).