Eremias fasciata Blanford, 1874

Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, Zootaxa 3855 (1), pp. 1-97 : 33

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).

Figures

FIGURES 92–97. 92. Eremias fasciata. 93. Eremias grammica. 94. Eremias intermedia. 95. Eremias kavirensis. 96. Eremias kopetdaghica. 97. Eremias lalezharica.