Eremias strauchi Kessler, 1878

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 : 36

Eremias strauchi Kessler, 1878

LECTOTYPE. MLSU 166 , designated by Szczerbak (1974).

TYPE LOCALITY. Vagarshapat [= Echmiadzin, Armenia].

DISTRIBUTION. NE Anatolia, Armenia, Azerbaijan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 105 . West and East Azerbaijan and Ardabil Prov. Determination of the specimen from Tehran held in Torino collection ( MZUT R2273 ) requires further confirmation .

HABITAT. Dry stony plains, foothills and hillsides, and also harvested fields. For a detailed list of the habitat vegetation see Ahmadzadeh et al. (2009).

REMARKS. Eremias kopetdaghica (see above) was formerly considered a subspecies of E. strauchi .

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Franzen & Heckes (1999); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2008, 2009); Rastegar Pouyani et al. (2014).

Figures

FIGURES 104–109. 104. Eremias pleskei. 105. Eremias strauchi. 106. Eremias suphani. 107. Eremias velox. 108. Iranolacerta brandtii. 109. Iranolacerta zagrosica.