Eremias

Eremias velox

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lacertibaenia

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Subordo: Lacertoidea Infraordo: Lacertibaenia

Familia: Lacertidae
Subfamilia: Lacertinae
Genus: Eremias
Species (42): E. acutirostris – E. afghanistanica – E. andersoni – E. argus – E. arguta – E. aria – E. brenchleyi – E. buechneri – E. cholistanica – E. dzungarica – E. fahimii – E. fasciata – E. grammica – E. intermedia – E. isfahanica – E. kakari – E. kavirensis – E. killasaifullahi – E. kokshaaliensis – E. kopetdaghica – E. lalezharica – E. lineolata – E. montana – E. multiocellata – E. nigrocellata – E. nikolskii – E. papenfussi – E. persica – E. pleskei – E. przewalskii – E. quadrifrons – E. rafiqi – E. regeli – E. roborowskii – E. scripta – E. strauchi – E. stummeri – E. suphani – E. szczerbaki – E. velox – E. vermiculata – E. yarkandensis

Name

Eremias Wiegmann, 1834: 9 [conserved name]

• Type species: Lacerta velox Pallas, 1771, by subsequent designation by Opinion 1318 (1985: 171).
• Gender: feminine.
• Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (Opinion 1318).

Synonyms

• Ommateremias Lantz, 1928: 2
  • Type species: Lacerta arguta Pallas, 1773, by original designation.
  • Gender: feminine.
  • Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (Opinion 1318).

References

Primary references

• Wiegmann, A.F.A. 1834. Herpetologia mexicana, seu Descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae quae itineribus comitis De Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chr. Guil. Schiede in Museum zoologicum Berolinense pervenerunt. Pars prima saurorum species amplectens, adjecto systematis saurorum prodromo, additisque multis in hunc amphibiorum ordinem observationibus. C. G. Luderitz: Berolini. i–vi + 54 pp., pls. I–X. BHL
• International Commisision on Zoological Nomenclature 1985. Opinion 1318. (Opinion correcting the ruling given in Opinion 92). Lacerta velox Pallas, 1771 is the type species of Eremias Wiegmann, 1834 (Reptilia). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 42(2): 171–172. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Rastegar-Pouyani, N. & Rastegar-Pouyani, E. 2001. A new species of Eremias (Sauria: Lacertidae) from highlands of Kermanshah Province, western Iran. Asiatic Herpetological Research 9: 107–112. BHL Reference page. 
• Baig, K.J. & Masroor, R. 2006. A New Species of Eremias (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Cholistan Desert, Pakistan. Russian Journal of Herpetology 13(3): 167–174. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2006-13-3-167-174 Reference page. 
• Mozaffari, O. & Parham, J.F. 2007. A new species of racerunner lizard (Lacertidae: Eremias) from Iran. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series 58(28): 569–574. Reference page. 
• Mozaffari, O., Ahmadzadeh, F. & Parham, J.F. 2011. Eremias papenfussi sp. nov., a new lacertid lizard (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Tehran Province, Iran. Zootaxa 3114: 57–62. Preview. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3114.1.6 Reference page. 
• Rastegar-Pouyani, E., Hosseinian, S., Rafiee, S., Kami, H.G., Rajabizadeh, M. & Wink, M. 2016. A new species of the genus Eremias Fitzinger, 1834 (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Central Iran, supported by mtDNA sequences and morphology. Zootaxa 4132(2): 207–220. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4132.2.2 Reference page. 
• Rastegar-Pouyani, E., Hosseinian, S., Rafiee, S., Kami, H.G., Rajabizadeh, M. & Wink, M. 2016. ERRATUM: ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI, SAEED HOSSEINIAN, SOOLMAZ RAFIEE, HAJI GHOLI KAMI, MEHDI RAJABIZADEH & MICHAEL WINK (2016) A new species of the genus Eremias Fitzinger, 1834 (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Central Iran, supported by mtDNA sequences and morphology . Zootaxa, 4132: 207–220. Zootaxa 4169(3): 600–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.3.12. Reference page. 
• Orlova, V.F., Poyarkov, N.A., Jr., Chirikova, M.A., Nazarov, R., Munkhbaatar, M., Munkhbayar, K. & Terbish, K. 2017. MtDNA differentiation and taxonomy of Central Asian racerunners of Eremias multiocellata-E. przewalskii species complex (Squamata, Lacertidae). Zootaxa 4282(1): 1–42. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4282.1.1 Reference page. 
• Liu, J., Guo, X., Chen, D., Li, J., Yue, B. & Zeng, X. 2018. Diversification and historical demography of the rapid racerunner (Eremias velox) in relation to geological history and Pleistocene climatic oscillations in arid Central Asia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 130: 244–258. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.029 Reference page. 
• Mozaffari, O., Ahmadzadeh, F. & Saberi-Pirooz, R. 2020. Fahimi's racerunner, a new species of the genus Eremias Fitzinger, 1834 (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Iran. Zootaxa 4768(4): 565–578. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4768.4.7 Reference page. 
• Masroor, R., Khisroon, M., Khan, M.A. & Jablonski, D. 2020. A new species of Eremias (Squamata: Lacertidae) from the arid mountains of Pakistan. Zootaxa 4786(1): 101–121. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4786.1.8 Reference page. 
• Masroor, R., Khan, M.A., Nadeem, M.S., Amir, S.A., Khisroon, M. & Jablonski, D. 2022. Appearances often deceive in racerunners: integrative approach reveals two new species of Eremias (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Pakistan. Zootaxa 5175(1): 55–87. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5175.1.3 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Eremias . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 8 February 2024.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Wüstenrenner
English: Steppe Racerunners
հայերեն: Մողեսիկ
русский: Ящурки