Eremias

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.^[2]

Eremias
Eremias przewalskii, Mongolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Lacertoidea
Family:	Lacertidae
Subfamily:	Lacertinae
Genus:	Eremias Fitzinger, 1834[1]

Species

Eremias lineolata

The following 44 species are recognized.^[3]

• 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 ^[4]
• Eremias fasciata Blanford, 1874 – Sistan racerunner
• Eremias grammica (Lichtenstein, 1823) – reticulate racerunner
• Eremias graphica Orlova, Rasegar-Pouyani, Rajabizadeh, Nabizadeh, Poyarkov, Melnikov & Nazarov, 2023^[5]

• 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^[6] – 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^[2] – 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, 2011^[1]
• 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^[5]
• 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