Eremias lineolata ( Nikolsky, 1896 )

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 : 34

Eremias lineolata ( Nikolsky, 1896)

LECTOTYPE. ZIL 8801, designated by Szczerbak (1974).

TYPE LOCALITY. Not specified in the original description; Szczerbak (1974) designated a lectotype from between Feyzabad and Nusi, Khorasan Razavi Prov. , Iran .

DISTRIBUTION. NE Iran, Central Asia, N Afghanistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 98 . Eastern part of the country adjoining Afghanistan and Turkmenistan (Khorasan Razavi, South Khorasan Prov.); a single record from the Zabol area , Sistan and Baluchistan Prov .

HABITAT. Arid habitats such as sand dunes and loess with sparse turfs of grasses. Found syntopic with E. intermedia by the Turkmen borders (Hosseinian Yousefkhani & Rastegar-Pouyani 2013a).

REFERENCES. Szczerbak (1974); Anderson (1999); Hosseinian Yousefkhani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2013a).

Figures

FIGURES 98–103. 98. Eremias lineolata. 99. Eremias montana. 100. Eremias nigrocellata. 101. Eremias nova. 102. Eremias papenfussi. 103. Eremias persica.