Eremias rafiqi MASROOR, KHAN, NADEEM, AMIR, KHISROON & JABLONSKI, 2022
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Eremias rafiqi
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| Higher Taxa | Lacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Rafiq’s Racerunner |
| Synonym | Eremias rafiqi MASROOR, KHAN, NADEEM, AMIR, KHISROON & JABLONSKI 2022 |
| Distribution | SE Iran (Balochistan) Type locality: Tanishpa village, Torghar Mountains, Killa Saifullah district, Balochistan (31.1869° N, 68.4126° E; Fig. 1), elevation 2,506 m a. s. l. |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. PMNH 856 (cyt b: n/a; Rag1: n/a), an adult male, collected May 25, 1997, leg. Khalid Javed Baig (Fig. 4). Paratypes. Males: PMNH 855 (cyt b: n/a; Rag1: n/a), 857 (cyt b: n/a; Rag1: n/a), PMNH 859 (cyt b: n/a; Rag1: n/a), PMNH 861 (cyt b: n/a; Rag1: n/a), PMNH 4056 (cyt b: n/a; Rag1: MT554487). Females: PMNH 3724 (cyt b: n/a; Rag1: MT554476), PMNH 3735 (cyt b: MT554461; Rag1: MT554477), PMNH 4058 (cyt b: n/a; Rag1: n/a). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis. A large-sized lacertid lizard, maximum snout-vent length (SVL) = 99.3 mm, tail 1.67 to 1.89 times longer than body length (SVL), hindlimbs relatively long (HLL/SVL ratio 0.6–0.8); subocular scale reaching to the edge of the mouth, 5–7 (mainly 6, rarely 5) anterior to subocular; dorsals 56–67; ventrals in 14–17 oblique longitudinal series; frontal separated from supraoculars; the height of the first two to three transverse rows of ventral scales in the pectoral region more than its breadth; 17–21 femoral pores on each side, separated medially by 1–4 scales (mainly 3, rarely 1), the space between the femoral pores less than one–fourth length of each row; toes without fringe, encircled by three scales in a single series of 22–27 unicarinate and bicarinate scales underneath; the tip of the fourth toe reaches to the forelimb and extends to just behind the collar. The adult specimens are grayish in life with four series of longitudinal black ocelli on the dorsum originating from behind the parietals and extending onto the tail; on each lateral side, a broader dark stripe originates from behind the eye and continues onto the tail with disconnected white round ocelli at the margins as well as white ocelli inside the stripe. (Masroor et al. 2022) |
| Comment | |
| Etymology | The species epithet “rafiqi” is taken from the first name of late Rafique Ahmed Rajput (1968– 2008) to whom the new species is dedicated. The deceased Rajput served in Sindh Wildlife Department from 1986 till his demise. |
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