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 Eremias intermedia (Strauch, 1876) LECTOTYPE . ZIL 3664, designated by Szczerbak (1974) . TYPE LOCALITY. Originally “...deserto aralo-caspico”; Kyzyl-Kum, Aralo-Caspian desert, Turkmenistan , by lectotype designation by Szczerbak (1974) ; detailed discussion on the types was provided by Bauer & Günther (1995) . DISTRIBUTION. S Central Asia, N Afghanistan , extreme NE Iran . DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN . Fig. 94 . Khorasan Razavi and South Khorasan Prov. The record by Hojati et al. (2009) from Semnan Prov. is questionable . HABITAT. Arid habitats such as sand dunes and stabilized sands with rodent burrows used as refuge. REMARKS. Possibly conspecific with E. nigrocellata ( Anderson 1999 ) . REFERENCES. Szczerbak (1974) ; Bauer & Günther (1995) ; Anderson (1999) ; Hosseinian Yousefkhani & RastegarPouyani (2013a).