Mountain ranges around the Fergana valley in East Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Southeastern Kazakhstan and North Tajikistan. 

Species:

Eremias nikolskii  BEDRIAGA in NIKOLSKY, 1905

Synonyms:

Eremias intermedia (part.)   BOULENGER, 1921

Eremias (Aspidorhinus) nikolskii   BARABANOV, 2009

Eremias nigrocellata   NIKOLSKY, 1896

Ommateremias nigrocellata   LANTZ, 1928

Common names:

Kyrghyz Racerunner (English)
Kirgisischer Wüstenrenner (German)

Types:

Holotype: ZISP 8192, Kyrgyzstan, the southern part of the Alai Range, Tengu-Bar (Tengiz-Bay), 28.05.1890, Coll. B.L. Grombchevsky

Terra Typica:

Tengizbay in the Altai Mountains, Kyrgyzstan


Taxonomic notes:

Subgenus Aspidorhinus


Relevant taxonomic literature:

  • Bedriaga, J. von (1905) -  Description of Eremias nikolskii. -  In: A.M. Nikolsky - Herpetologia rossica. Mémoires de l`Académie impériale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg, XVII (1): 1-518.  

  • Orlova, V.F. & Poyarkov, N.A. & Chirikova, M.A. & Nazarov, R.A. & Munkhbataar, M. & Munkhbayar, K. & Terbish, K. (2017) -  MtDNA differentiation and taxonomy of Central Asian racerunners of Eremias multiocellata-E. przewalskii species complex (Squamata, Lacertidae) -  Zootaxa 4282 (1): 1-42.    

 
 
 
 
 

Eremias nikolskii  © 2006 Valeri Eremchenko