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Higher TaxaLacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Aralo-Caspian racerunner 
SynonymEremias persica BLANFORD 1874: 31
Podarces persica STRAUCH 1876
Eremias velox (part.) BOULENGER 1887
Eremias fasciata (part.) NIKOLSKY 1900
Eremias velox var. persica BOULENGER 1921
Eremias velox pesicus — PROCTER 1921
Eremias persica LANTZ 1928
Eremias velox persica — SMITH 1935: 383
Eremias velox persa WERNER 1938
Eremias velox persica — KHALAF KAMEL 1959
Eremias velox persica — KHALAF 1959
Eremias velox persica — LEVITON 1959: 453
Eremias velox persica — ANDERSON & LEVITON 1969
Eremias persica — FRYNTA et al. 1997
Eremias (Eremias) nigrolateralis RASTEGAR-POUYANI & NILSON 1998
Eremias nigrolateralis — ANDERSON 1999
Eremias persica — SZCZERBAK 2003
Eremias nigrolateralis — BAIG & MASROOR 2006
Eremias (Dimorphea) nigrolateralis — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Eremias (Dimorphea) persica — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Eremias (Aspidorhinus) persica — BARABANOV 2009
Eremias (Aspidorhinus) persica — MASROOR et al. 2020
Eremias persica8451= 70.4% of all 12001 species. 
DistributionS Turkmenistan, N/C/E Iran, Afghanistan, NW Pakistan

Type locality: near Ispahan (=Isfehan), Iran

nigrolateralis: Iran (Fars); Type locality: 150 km NE of Shiraz (53°9'E, 30°52'N), Fars Prov. S C Iran, 1800 m elevation; Asia  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: BMNH 1946.8.7.32, designated by Szczerbak 1974: 123 without catalog number but confirmed by Anderson 1999: 223. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: “Lower nasal resting on 2 or 3 supralabials; subocular bordering mouth; lateral scales offourth toe not forming distinct fringe; fourth toe with single complete row of subdigital scales, a complete row of somewhat smaller ventrolateral scales, and a few scattered, much smaller dorsolateral scales not forming complete row (total of 3 scales counted around penultimate phalanx of fourth toe); the 2 series of femoral pores separated by space not greater than one-fourth length of each; usually several collar scales distinctly larger than adjacent gulars; 28-39 gulars; 56-70 dorsals; 23-35 scales in ninth or tenth caudal annulus; broad lateral dark stripe enclosing one or 2 rows of white spots” (Anderson 1999: 221, Fig. 103). 
CommentSynonymy: partly after KHALIKOV & ANANJEVA (pers. comm.). Eremias nigrolateralis has been synonymized with Eremias persica by RASTEGAR-POUYANI et al. 2010. These authors also suggest to raise “four clades of the E. persica complex to species rank (localities 3, 6, 7, and 12), two to subspecies rank (localities 8 and 5)” although it is not clear to us what these taxa or clades are, as they are not given in Figure 1 (where the localities are shown) nor in the section “Taxonomic implications” where the statement was made, or in the tree where the localities and clades are all called “E. persica”.

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

Sympatry: E. velox (in scattered localities on the N and W margins of the Central Plateau in Iran and in S Turkmenistan); E. strauchi (in NE Khorasan and perhaps in the Kopet Dagh). 
EtymologyNamed after its distribution in Persia (now: Iran). 
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