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.Rastegar-Pouyani N, Rastegar-Pouyani E (2001). "A new species of Eremias (Sauria, Lacertidae) from highlands of Kermanshah Province, Western Iran". Asiatic Herpetological Research 9: 107-112.
Species
The following 44 species are recognized.List of Species: Eremias. The Reptile Database.
Eremias acutirostris (Boulenger, 1887) – point-snouted racerunner Eremias afghanistanica Böhme & Szczerbak, 1991 – Afghan racerunner Eremias andersoni Darevsky & Szczerbak, 1978 – Anderson's racerunner Eremias argus W. Peters, 1869 – Mongolia racerunner Eremias arguta (Pallas, 1773) – steppe-runner Eremias aria S.C. Anderson & Leviton, 1967 Eremias brenchleyi Günther, 1872 – Ordos racerunner Eremias buechneri Bedriaga, 1906 – Kaschar racerunner Eremias cholistanica Baig & Masroor, 2006 Eremias dzungarica Orlova, Poyarkov Jr., Chirikova, Nazarov, Munkhbaatar, Munkhbayar, & Terbish, 2017 – Dzungarian racerunner Eremias fahimii Mozaffari, Ahmadzadeh & Saberi-Pirooz, 2020- Fahimi's racerunner Eremias fasciata Blanford, 1874 – Sistan racerunner Eremias grammica (Lichtenstein, 1823) – reticulate racerunner Eremias graphica Orlova, Rasegar-Pouyani, Rajabizadeh, Nabizadeh, Poyarkov, Melnikov & Nazarov, 2023
Eremias intermedia (Strauch, 1876) Eremias isfahanica Rastegar-Pouyani, Hosseinian, Rafiee, Kami, Rajabizadeh, & Wink, 2016 – Eremias kavirensis Mozaffari & Parham, 2007 Eremias kakari Masroor, Khisroon, Khan, and Jablonski, 2020 – Kakar's racerunner Eremias killasaifullahi Masroor, Khan, Nadeem, Amir, Khisroon, & Jablonski, 2022 – Killa Saifullah's racerunner Eremias kokshaaliensis Jeremčenko & Panfilov, 1999 Eremias kopetdaghica Szczerbak, 1972 – Kopet Dagh racerunner Eremias lalezharica Moravec, 1994 – Lalezhar racerunner Eremias lineolata (Nikolsky, 1897) – striped racerunner Eremias montana N. Rastegar-Pouyani & E. Rastegar-Pouyani, 2006 – mountain racerunner Eremias multiocellata Günther, 1872 – multi-ocellated racerunner Eremias nigrocellata Nikolsky, 1896 – black-ocellated racerunner Eremias nikolskii Bedriaga, 1905 – Kirghiz racerunner Eremias papenfussi Mozaffari, Ahmadzadeh & Parham, 2011Mozaffari O et al. (2011). "Eremias papenfussi sp. nov., a new lacertid lizard (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Tehran Province, Iran". Zootaxa 3114: 57-62. Eremias persica Blanford, 1875 Eremias pleskei Nikolsky, 1905 – Pleske's racerunner Eremias przewalskii (Strauch, 1876) – Gobi racerunner Eremias pseudofasciata Orlova, Rasegar-Pouyani, Rajabizadeh, Nabizadeh, Poyarkov, Melnikov & Nazarov, 2023 Eremias quadrifrons (Strauch, 1876) – Alachan racerunner Eremias rafiqi Masroor, Khan, Nadeem, Amir, Khisroon, & Jablonski, 2022 – Rafiq's racerunner Eremias regeli Bedriaga in Nikolsky, 1905 Eremias roborowskii (Bedriaga, 1912) Eremias scripta (Strauch, 1867) – sand racerunner Eremias strauchi Kessler, 1878 – Strauch's racerunner Eremias stummeri Wettstein, 1940 – Stummer's racerunner Eremias suphani Başoğlu & Hellmich, 1980 – Başoğlu's racerunner, Suphan racerunner Eremias szczerbaki Jeremčenko, Panfilov & Zarinenko, 1992 – Szczerbak's racerunner Eremias velox (Pallas, 1771) – rapid racerunner, rapid fringe-toed lizard Eremias vermiculata Blanford, 1875 – variegated racerunner, Central Asian racerunner Eremias yarkandensis Blanford, 1875 – 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).