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Eremias strauchi KESSLER, 1878

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Higher TaxaLacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesG: Strauchs Wüstenrenner
E: Strauch's Racerunner 
SynonymEremias strauchi KESSLER 1878: 166
Eremias velox var. persica BOETTGER 1886
Eremias velox (part.) BOULENGER 1887
Eremias velox var. strauchi B— EDRIAGA 1912
Eremias velox strauchi — NIKOLSKY 1913
Eremias strauchi — ENGELMANN et al 1993
Eremias strauchi — HILLMANN 2003
Eremias (Dimorphea) strauchi — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Eremias strauchi — NASRABADI et al. 2017 
DistributionS Armenia, S Azerbaidzhan, NE Turkey, NE Iran

Type locality: Echmiadzin, Armenia; “Etshmiadzin, Armenia” fide ANDERSON 1999.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: ZISP (fide I. Doronin), originally MLSU 166 (designated by Szczerbak 1974:114) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Lower nasal resting on 2 or 3 supralabials; subocular bordering mouth; lateral scales of fourth toe not forming distinct fringe; series of femoral pores separated by space not greater than one-fourth length of each; fourth toe with single row of subdigital scales, complete row of somewhat smaller ventrolateral scales, and a few scattered, much smaller dorsolateral scales not forming complete row (total of 3 scales around penultimate phalange of fourth toe); usually several collar scales distinctly larger than adjacent gulars; 23-33 gulars; 56-68 dorsals; 24-35 scales in ninth or tenth caudal annulus; vertebral zone ofback uniform in adults, usually without dark or light spots; ventral surface of tail yellow in juveniles (Anderson 1999: 225, Fig. 109).


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CommentSynonymy mainly after KHALIKOV & ANANJEVA (pers. comm.).

Distribution: See map in SMID et al. 2014 for distribution in Iran.

Similar species: E. persica. 
EtymologyNamed after Alexander Strauch (1832-1893), Russian zoologist. 
References
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  • Anderson, Steven C 1999. The lizards of Iran. Contributions to Herpetology Volume 15, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Saint Louis, Missouri: i-vii, 1-442 [review in Copeia 2000 (4): 1144] - get paper here
  • Arakelyan, Marine S.; Felix D. Danielyan, Claudia Corti, Roberto Sindaco, and Alan E. Leviton 2011. The Herpetofauna of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. SSAR, Salt Lake City, 154 pp. [ISBN: 978-0-916984-84-7.]
  • BADER, T. & KOPECZKY, R. & RIEGLER, C. & WIELAND, F. 2016. Die Eidechsen Armeniens – Teil 2: Die Gattungen Lacerta, Ophisops, Parvilacerta und Eremias. Die Eidechse 27 (2): 33-46. - get paper here
  • Baig, Khalid Javed and Rafaqat Masroor 2006. A New Species of Eremias (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Cholistan Desert, Pakistan. Russ. J. Herpetol. 13 (3): 167-174
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Bischoff, W. 1978. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Echsen des Kaukasus. Salamandra 14 (4): 178-202 - get paper here
  • Engelmann, W.E. et al. 1993. Lurche und Kriechtiere Europas. Neumann Verlag (Radebeul, Germany), 440 pp.
  • Franzen, Michael and Ullrich Heckes. 1999. Eremias suphani Basoglu & Hellmich, 1968 und Eremias strauchi Kessler, 1878 in der östlichen Türkei: Diagnostische Merkmale, Verbreitung und Lebensräume (Sauria: Lacertidae). Salamandra 35 (4): 255-266 - get paper here
  • Hillmann, B. 2003. Herpetologische Eindrücke aus dem Iran. Elaphe 11 (4): 61-71
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  • Kamali, Kamran 2020. A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Iran. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (www.chimaira.de). 574 pp.
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  • Pérez I de Lanuza G, Font E 2016. The evolution of colour pattern complexity: selection for conspicuousness favours contrasting within-body colour combinations in lizards. J Evol Biol. doi: 10.1111/jeb.12835 - get paper here
  • RASTEGAR-POUYANI, ESKANDAR; 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 (2): 207–220 - get paper here
  • Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar; Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani & Michael Wink 2015. Taxonomic reevaluation of Eremias strauchi strauchi Kessler, 1878 and Eremias strauchi kopetdaghica Szczerbak, 1972, based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Zoology in the Middle East 61 (2): 118; DOI:10.1080/09397140.2015.1020615 - get paper here
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