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Pseuderemias mucronata (BLANFORD, 1870)

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Higher TaxaLacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Blanford’s Sand Racer, Sinai Racerunner 
SynonymAcanthodactylus mucronatus BLANFORD 1870: 453
Eremias mucronata — BOULENGER 1895: 168
Eremias mucronata — BOULENGER 1896
Eremias mucronata — LOVERIDGE 1936
Eremias mucronata — PARKER 1942: 61
Pseuderemias mucronata — DELY & STOHL 1982
Pseuderemias mucronata mucronata — LANZA 1983
Pseuderemias mucronata — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Pseuderemias mucronata — LARGEN & SPAWLS 2010: 368 
DistributionE Egypt (including Sinai Peninsula), E Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), E Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, N Somalia

Type locality: Anseba, Eritrea.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesType: BMNH 1946.8.6.29 (and possibly additional specimens). 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2122 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentType species: Acanthodactylus mucronatus BLANFORD 1870 is the type species of the genus Pseuderemias BOETTGER 1883: 118 (footnote). Note that Boettger 1883 mentioned Eremias lineolata RÜPPELL 1845 as the “first” (founding?) member of Pseuderemias. Boulenger 1918 mentions mucronatus as type species.

Gans et al. 1965: 44 present a comparison of the Somali species of Eremias.

Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyNamed after the Latin nominative singular mucronis, "sharp point," and –atus, "pertaining to", referring to the pointed snout in this species.

The genus was named after Greek pseudes (ψευδής), false + Latin Eremias, lizard genus due to Wiegmann, 1834. [“…Eremias lineolata Rüppell (…) aus Abessynien gehört einer eigenen Gattung (Pseudereniias) an…“]. 
References
  • Baha el Din, S. 2006. A guide to the reptiles and amphibians of Egypt. The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo. xvi + 359 pp.
  • Blanford, W.T. 1870. Observations of the geology and zoology of Abyssinia, made 1867-68. McMillan (London), xii + 487 pp. - get paper here
  • Boettger, O. 1883. Die Reptilien und Amphibien von Marocco. II. Abh. senckenb. naturf. Ges. 13: 93-146 - get paper here
  • Boettger,O. 1893. Übersicht der von Prof. C. Keller anlässlich der Ruspoli'schen Expedition nach den Somaliländern gesammelten Reptilien und Batrachier. Zool. Anz. 16 (416): 113-119 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1895. On the reptiles and batrachians obtained by Mr. E. Lort-Phillips in Somaliland. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 16: 165-169 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1918. A synopsis of the lizards of the genus Eremias. J. zool. Res. 3: 2
  • Dely, Oliver G. & Stohl, G. 1982. Pileusbeschilderung und phylogenetische Beziehungen innerhalb der Lacertiden. Vertebrata Hungarica, Budapest, 21: 85-10
  • Gans, C.; LAURENT, R.F. & PANDIT, H. 1965. Notes on a herpetological collection from the Somali Republic. Ann. Mus. Roy. Afr. Centr., Sér. 8vo, Tervuren, (80) Zool., (134): 1-93
  • Lanza, B. 1983. A list of the Somali amphibians and reptiles. MONITORE ZOOLOGICO ITALIANO, new Ser., SUPPL. 18 (8): 193-247 - get paper here
  • Lanza, B. 1990. Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography. Biogeographia, 14: 407-465 [1988] - get paper here
  • Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. 2006. Lizards of Ethiopia (Reptilia Sauria): an annotated checklist, bibliography, gazetteer and identification. Tropical Zoology 19 (1): 21-109 - get paper here
  • Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. 2010. Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 694 pp.
  • Loveridge, A. 1936. African reptiles and amphibians in the Field Museum of Natural History. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Chicago, 22 (1): 1-122 - get paper here
  • Mazuch, Tomáš 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of Somaliland and Eastern Ethiopia. Tomáš Mazuch Publishing, 80 pp. ISBN: 978-80-905439-0-4 - get paper here
  • Neumann, Oscar Rudolph 1905. Über nordost-afrikanische und arabische Kriechtiere. Zool. Jahrb. Syst., 22: 389-404. - get paper here
  • Parker, H. W. 1942. The lizards of British Somaliland. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 91: 1—101 - get paper here
  • Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here
  • Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch & Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
  • Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
  • Werner,F. 1919. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der mit Unterstützung der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien aus der Erbschaft Treitl von F. Werner unternommenen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Anglo-Aegyptischen Sudan (Kordofan) 1914. IV. Bearbeitung der Fische, Amphibien und Reptilien. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss Wien, Math.-Naturw. Klasse 96: 437-509 - get paper here
 
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