Eremias nikolskii, commonly known as the Kirghiz racerunner, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to Central Asia.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Lacertidae |
| Genus: | Eremias |
| Species: | E. nikolskii
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| Binomial name | |
| Eremias nikolskii Bedriaga, 1905
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Etymology
editThe specific name, nikolskii, is in honor of Russian herpetologist Alexander Nikolsky.[1]
Geographic range
editE. nikolskii is found in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.[2]
Behavior
editReproduction
editReferences
edit- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Eremias nikolskii, p. 190).
- ^ a b c Eremias nikolskii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 21 April 2019.
Further reading
edit- Bedriaga J (1905). "Eremias nikolskii, new species". p. 478. In: Nikolsky A (1905). "Herpetologia rossica ". Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg 17 (1): 1–518.
- Sindaco, Roberto; Jeremčenko, Valery 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. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. ISBN 978-88-89504-14-7.
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