Eremias is a genus of lizards in the family Lacertidae, the wall lizards. They are native to Asia and southeastern Europe, where they live in desert and steppe regions.
Species
The following 44 species are recognized.
- Eremias acutirostris <small>(Boulenger, 1887)</small> – point-snouted racerunner
- Eremias afghanistanica <small> & Szczerbak, 1991</small> – Afghan racerunner
- Eremias andersoni <small>Darevsky & Szczerbak, 1978</small> – Anderson's racerunner
- Eremias argus <small>W. Peters, 1869</small> – Mongolia racerunner
- Eremias arguta <small>(Pallas, 1773)</small> – steppe-runner
- Eremias aria <small>S.C. Anderson & Leviton, 1967</small>
- Eremias brenchleyi <small>Günther, 1872</small> – Ordos racerunner
- Eremias buechneri <small>Bedriaga, 1906</small> – Kaschar racerunner
- Eremias cholistanica <small>Baig & Masroor, 2006</small>
- Eremias dzungarica <small>Orlova, Poyarkov Jr., Chirikova, Nazarov, Munkhbaatar, Munkhbayar, & Terbish, 2017</small> – Dzungarian racerunner
- Eremias fahimii <small>Mozaffari, Ahmadzadeh & Saberi-Pirooz, 2020-</small> Fahimi's racerunner
- Eremias fasciata <small>Blanford, 1874</small> – Sistan racerunner
- Eremias grammica <small>(Lichtenstein, 1823)</small> – reticulate racerunner
- Eremias graphica <small>Orlova, Rasegar-Pouyani, Rajabizadeh, Nabizadeh, Poyarkov, Melnikov & Nazarov, 2023</small>
- Eremias intermedia <small>(Strauch, 1876)</small>
- Eremias isfahanica <small>Rastegar-Pouyani, Hosseinian, Rafiee, Kami, Rajabizadeh, & Wink, 2016</small> –
- Eremias kavirensis <small>Mozaffari & Parham, 2007</small>
- Eremias kakari <small>Masroor, Khisroon, Khan, and Jablonski, 2020</small> – Kakar's racerunner
- Eremias killasaifullahi <small>Masroor, Khan, Nadeem, Amir, Khisroon, & Jablonski, 2022</small> â Killa Saifullah's racerunner
- Eremias kokshaaliensis <small>JeremÃÂenko & Panfilov, 1999</small>
- Eremias kopetdaghica <small>Szczerbak, 1972</small> – Kopet Dagh racerunner
- Eremias lalezharica <small>Moravec, 1994</small> – Lalezhar racerunner
- Eremias lineolata <small>(Nikolsky, 1897)</small> – striped racerunner
- Eremias montana <small>N. Rastegar-Pouyani & E. Rastegar-Pouyani, 2006</small> – mountain racerunner
- Eremias multiocellata <small>Günther, 1872</small> – multi-ocellated racerunner
- Eremias nigrocellata <small>Nikolsky, 1896</small> – black-ocellated racerunner
- Eremias nikolskii <small>Bedriaga, 1905</small> – Kirghiz racerunner
- Eremias papenfussi <small>Mozaffari, Ahmadzadeh & Parham, 2011</small>
- Eremias persica <small>Blanford, 1875</small>
- Eremias pleskei <small>Nikolsky, 1905</small> – Pleske's racerunner
- Eremias przewalskii <small>(Strauch, 1876)</small> – Gobi racerunner
- Eremias pseudofasciata <small>Orlova, Rasegar-Pouyani, Rajabizadeh, Nabizadeh, Poyarkov, Melnikov & Nazarov, 2023</small>
- Eremias quadrifrons <small>(Strauch, 1876)</small> – Alachan racerunner
- Eremias rafiqi <small>Masroor, Khan, Nadeem, Amir, Khisroon, & Jablonski, 2022</small> â Rafiq's racerunner
- Eremias regeli <small>Bedriaga in Nikolsky, 1905</small>
- Eremias roborowskii <small>(Bedriaga, 1912)</small>
- Eremias scripta <small>(Strauch, 1867)</small> – sand racerunner
- Eremias strauchi <small>Kessler, 1878</small> – Strauch's racerunner
- Eremias stummeri <small>Wettstein, 1940</small> – Stummer's racerunner
- Eremias suphani <small> & , 1980</small> – BaÃ
ÂoÃÂlu's racerunner, Suphan racerunner
- Eremias szczerbaki <small>JeremÃÂenko, Panfilov & Zarinenko, 1992</small> – Szczerbak's racerunner
- Eremias velox <small>(Pallas, 1771)</small> – rapid racerunner, rapid fringe-toed lizard
- Eremias vermiculata <small>Blanford, 1875</small> – variegated racerunner, Central Asian racerunner
- Eremias yarkandensis <small>Blanford, 1875</small> – Yarkand racerunner, Yarkand sandlizard
References
Further reading
- Wiegmann AFA (1834). Herpetologia Mexicana, seu descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae, quae itineribus comitis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chr. Guil. Schiede in Museum Zoologicum Berolinense pervenerunt. Pars prima, saurorum species amplectens. Adiecto systematis saurorum prodromo, additisque multis in hunc amphibiorum ordinem observationibus. Berlin: C.G. Luderitz. vi + 54 pp. + Plates I-X. (Eremias, new genus, p. 9). (in Latin).