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Eremias quadrifrons (STRAUCH, 1876)

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Higher TaxaLacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Alachan Racerunner
Chinese: 四额鳞麻蜥 
SynonymPodarces (Eremias) quadrifrons STRAUCH 1876: 34
Eremias quadrifrons — BOULENGER 1887: 105
Eremias quadrifrons — ZHAO & ADLER 1993
Eremias (Pareremias) quadrifrons — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 
DistributionChina (Ala Shan Desert, Inner Mongolia)

Type locality: Alashan Desert, Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia),
China.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZISP 3930, China, Alashan desert, Coll. N.M. Przhevalsky 
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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Latin quadri, square + Latin frons, forehead, brow; apparently for the four frontonasals. 
References
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1887. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575 pp. - get paper here
  • Lixia, Wan; Shihong, Sun; Yuanting, Jin; Yongfeng, Yan; Naifa, Liu 2007. Molecular phylogeography of the Chinese lacertids of the genus Eremias (Lacertidae) based on 16S rRNA mitochondrial DNA sequences. Amphibia-Reptilia 28 (1): 33-41 - get paper here
  • Strauch in: PRZEWALSKI, N.M. 1876. Mongoliya i Strana Tangutov. Tryokhletneye puteshestviye v Vostochnoj Nagoruoj Asii (= Mongolia and the Tangut Country. A Three-Year Travel in Eastern High Asia). Volumes 1-2. Imper. Russ. Geogr. Soc., St. Petersburg (in Russian; English edition, London 1876, French edition, Paris 1880, German edition, Jena 1887; abridged Russian edition with added notes, Moscow 1946). - get paper here
  • Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here
 
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