Eremias pleskei Bedriaga, 1905

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

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5493518
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scientific name	Eremias pleskei Bedriaga, 1905
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Treatment

LECTOTYPE. ZIL 6724, designated by Szczerbak (1974).

TYPE LOCALITY. Gouvernement Eriwan, Kreis Nachitschewan [= Nakhichevan, Azerbaijan].

DISTRIBUTION. NE Anatolia, Armenia, Nakhichevan ( Azerbaijan), NW Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 104 View FIGURES 104–109. 104 . Restricted to the north-westernmost Iran to West and East Azerbaijan Prov. HABITAT. Sandy or stony semideserts covered with scattered xerophytes ( Artemisia ). The lizards dig burrows under the bushes.

REMARKS. A sister species to E. grammica ( Pyron et al. 2013) .

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