Eremias nikolskii, commonly known as the Kirghiz racerunner, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is native to Central Asia.

Etymology The specific name, nikolskii, is in honor of Russian herpetologist Alexander Nikolsky.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Eremias nikolskii, p. 190).

Geographic distribution Eremias nikolskii is found in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

Habitat The preferred natural habitat of Eremias nikolskii is rocky shrubland, at elevations of .

Behavior Eremias nikolskii is terrestrial and diurnal.

Reproduction Eremias nikolskii is oviparous. Clutch size is two to six eggs, and each adult female lays two clutches per year.

References

Further reading

Bedriaga J (1905). "Eremias nikolskii, new species". pp. 478–479. In: Nikolsky A (1905). "Herpetologia rossica ". Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg 17 (1): 1–518. (in Russian).

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. .