Eremias montana Rastegar-Pouyani & Rastegar-Pouyani, 2001

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 : 35

Eremias montana Rastegar-Pouyani & Rastegar-Pouyani, 2001

HOLOTYPE. Only a field number given, P168.

TYPE LOCALITY. 60 km NE of Kermanshah, Kermanshah Prov., Iran .

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 99 . Apart from two localities in Kermanshah Prov. known from the locality Qorveh in Kordestan Prov.

HABITAT. Highland steppe in the Zagros Mountains at 1800 m elevation with luxuriant vegetation of Amigdalus, Artemisia , Astragalus , Euphorbia and various grass species.

REMARKS. A member of the E. persica species complex. It belongs together with a central Zagros population of E. persica and an undescribed species from Ardabil Prov. to a basal group sister to the remaining E. persica complex populations ( Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2010b). Since the gender of Eremias is feminine ( Sindaco et al. 2013), the name should be spelled as ‘ montana ’, not ‘ montanus ’ as it appears in the original description.

REFERENCES. Rastegar-Pouyani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2001); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2010b); Bahmani et al. (2011).

Figures

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