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Eremias pleskei (Pleske's Racerunner)

Synonyms: Eremias velox (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Eremias pleskei (commonly known as Pleske's racerunner or the Transcaucasian racerunner) is a species of lizard native to the Armenian Plateau in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Turkey.
View Wikipedia Record: Eremias pleskei

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Eremias pleskei

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3 grams
Female Weight [1]  4 grams
Gestation [1]  46 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  2
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.968 inches (5 cm)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Eastern Anatolian montane steppe Iran, Turkey, Armenia Palearctic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Irano-Anatolian Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0