Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran
Author
Šmíd, Jiří
Author
Moravec, Jiří
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Kodym, Petr
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Kratochvíl, Lukáš
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Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian
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Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
jirismd@gmail.com.
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Frynta, Daniel
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Zootaxa
2014
2014-08-20
3855
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1
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journal article
4341
10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1
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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.