North-East China. 

Species:

Eremias brenchleyi  GÜNTHER, 1872

Common names:

Ordos Racerunner (English)
Ordos Wüstenrenner (German)

Types:

Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.7.63


Taxonomic notes:

Subgenus Pareremias

Distribution: Erroneously reported from E-Mongolia (fide ZHAO & ADLER 1993); very similar to E. argus. GÜNTHER (1873, in J. L. BRENCHLEY: 396) gave the type locality as the district of Mongolia called `The Land of Grass` (or Steppes), but the species is not known from Mongolia. Not in Russia fide SINDACO & JEREMCENKO 2008.


Relevant taxonomic literature:

  • Günther, A. (1872) -  Description of Eremias brenchleyi ; E. multiocellata. -  In: “On some new species of reptiles and fishes collected by J. Brenchley, Esq.” - The Annals and magazine of natural history, (4) 10 (60): 418-426.   

  • Sindaco, R. & Jeremčenko, V.K. (2008) -  The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional atlas of the turtles, crocodiles, amphisbaenians and lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. -  Monografie della Societas Herpetologica Italica. 589 pp.  

  • Zhao, Q. & Liu, H.-X. & Luo, L.-G. & Ji, X. (2011) -  Comparative population genetics and phylogeography of two lacertid lizards (Eremias argus and E. brenchleyi) from China. -  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 58 (3): 478-491.  

  • 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.    

 
 

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