Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran Author Šmíd, Jiří Author Moravec, Jiří Author Kodym, Petr Author Kratochvíl, Lukáš Author Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian Author Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar jirismd@gmail.com. Author Frynta, Daniel text Zootaxa 2014 2014-08-20 3855 1 1 97 journal article 4341 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1 1f4f2c28-d4fa-487a-bf83-988cc35518ea 1175-5326 4929701 0E2D2B7C-7A96-4CAB-87F2-87A785F88D7F Eumeces Wiegmann, 1834 A Palearctic genus with five currently recognized species. Even after retracting the Oriental and Nearctic species from the genus (today Plestiodon ), Eumeces still remains paraphyletic with respect to the genera Scincus and Scincopus ( Schmitz et al. 2004 ; Carranza et al. 2008 ; Pyron et al. 2013 ). Therefore, additional nomenclatural adjustments are needed to stabilize this taxonomically unsatisfactory situation.