Eremias andersoni DAREVSKY & SZCZERBAK, 1978

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Higher Taxa	Lacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Anderson's racerunner
Synonym	Eremias andersoni DAREVSKY & SZCZERBAK 1978 Eremias (Rhabderemias) fasciata — BISCHOFF 1978 Eremias andersoni — NILSON & ANDREN 1981: 138 Eremias andersoni — ANDERSON 1999 Eremias andersoni — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 Eremias andersoni — NASRABADI et al. 2017
Distribution	Iran (Dashte-Kavir Desert, Semnan) Type locality: Dashte-Kavir Desert, 45 km E of Lake Daryache Namak.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MMTT 1671, subadult male, Iran National Museum of Natural History
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Subocular in contact with edge of mouth; frontal and supraoculars not separated by a complete row of granules; nostril situated among 3 nasals and widely separated from supralabials (Fig. 93); ventrals in 13-14 oblique longitudinal series; series of femoral pores separated by space not greater than one-fourth of one row; supracaudals weakly keeled; fourth toe without long flat projecting scales (Anderson 1999: 212).
Comment	Distribution: See map in SMID et al. 2014 for distribution in Iran.
Etymology	Named after Steven Clement Anderson, the famous zoologist and explorer of Iranian lizards.
References	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 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 Darevsky, I.S. & N.N. Shcherbak 1978. Eremias andersoni, a new lizard (Reptilia, Lacertilia, Lacertidae) from Iran. Journal of Herpetology 12 (1): 13-15 - get paper here Kamali, Kamran 2020. A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Iran. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (www.chimaira.de). 574 pp. NASRABADI, REZA; NASRULLAH RASTEGAR-POUYANI, ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI, AHMAD GHARZI 2017. A revised key to the lizards of Iran (Reptilia: Squamata: Lacertilia). Zootaxa 4227 (3): 431–443 - get paper here Nilson,G. & Andren,C. 1981. Die Herpetofauna des Kavir-Schutzgebietes, Kavir-Wüste, Iran. Salamandra 17 (3-4): 130-146 - get paper here ORLOVA, VALENTINA F.; ESKANDAR RASEGAR-POUYANI, KHOSROW RAJABIZADEH, HOSSEIN NABIZADEH, NIKOLAY A. POYARKOV, DANIEL A. MELNIKOV, ROMAN A. NAZAROV 2023. Taxonomic diversity of racerunners with descriptions of two new Eremias species (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Central Iran. Zootaxa 5369 (3): 336–368 - get paper here RASTEGAR-POUYANI, NASRULLAH; HAJI GHOLI KAMI, MEHDI RAJABZADEH, SOHEILA SHAFIEI AND STEVEN CLEMENT ANDERSON 2008. Annotated Checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles of Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 4 (1): 7-30 Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here ŠMÍD, JIŘÍ; JIŘÍ MORAVEC, PETR KODYM, LUKÁŠ KRATOCHVÍL, SEYYED SAEED HOSSEINIAN YOUSEFKHANI, ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI & DANIEL FRYNTA 2014. Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran. Zootaxa 3855 (1): 001–097 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List http://www.lacerta.de/AS/Taxon.php?Genus=53&Species=313 https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/592301336327802/ Google images

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