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Eremias suphani Başoğlu & Hellmich, 1968 HOLOTYPE. ZDEU 31 /1957. TYPE LOCALITY. Süphan Dağı [= Mt. Süphan], [Lake] Aygir Gölü (ex. Franzen & Heckes 1999), Bitlis Prov., Turkey. DISTRIBUTION. Turkey and Iran. DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 106. Confirmed from Iran recently by Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013c), who reported it from West Azerbaijan Prov. HABITAT. All known localities are situated in the vicinity of large water bodies (Lake Van in Turkey, Lake Urmia in Iran) implying that E. suphani is adapted to moister habitats in mountain steppe regions (Bischoff & Böhme 1980). REMARKS. Originally described as a subspecies of E. velox. Bischoff (1978) suggested it to be a subspecies of E. strauchi and finally Bischoff & Böhme (1980) elevated E. suphani to a species level. Its distinction from E. strauchi was confirmed by genetic data by Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013b). REFERENCES. Bischoff & Böhme (1980); Franzen & Heckes (1999); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013c)., Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701, {"references":["Basoglu, M. & Hellmich, W. (1968) Eine neue Eremias - Form aus Ost-Anatolien (Reptilia, Lacertidae). Ege Universitesi Fen FakUltesi Ilmi Raporlar Serisi, 67, 1 - 9.","Franzen, M. & Heckes, U. (1999) Eremias suphani Basoglu & Hellmich, 1968 und Eremias strauchi Kessler, 1878 in der ostlichen Turkei: diagnostische Merkmale, Verbreitung und Lebensraume (Sauria: Lacertidae). Salamandra, 35, 255 - 266.","Rastegar-Pouyani, E., Avci, A., Kumlutas, Y., Ilgaz, C. & Hosseinian Yousefkhani, S. S. (2013 c) New country record and range extension of Eremias suphani Basoglu & Hellmich, 1968 from Iran. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 6, 35 - 39.","Bischoff, W. & Bohme, W. (1980) Der systematische Status der turkischen Wustenrenner des Subgenus Eremias. Zoologische Beitrage, 26, 297 - 306.","Bischoff, W. (1978) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Echsen des Kaukasus. Salamandra, 14, 178 - 202.","Rastegar-Pouyani, E., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Hosseinian Yousefkhani, S. S. & Arab, M. (2013 b) Rediscovery of Darevskia steineri (Eiselt, 1995) (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 20, 1 - 3."]}