Pseuderemias brenneri, also known commonly as Brenner's racerunner or Brenner's sand racer, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is native to the Horn of Africa.
Etymology The specific name, brenneri, is in honor of Richard Brenner, who was a German explorer of Africa.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Pseuderemias brenneri, p. 38).
Geographic range P. brenneri is found in Djibouti, eastern Ethiopia, Somalia, and northeastern Sudan.
Habitat The preferred natural habitats of P. brenneri are desert, shrubland, and savanna, at altitudes from sea level to .
Description P. brenneri may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about , and a tail length of about .Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. Lacertidæ .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. (Eremias brenneri, pp. 86–87).
Reproduction P. brenneri is oviparous.
References
Further reading Lanza B (1983). "A List of the Somali Amphibians and Reptiles". Monitore Zoologico Italiano. Supplemento 18 (1): 193–247. (Pseuderemias brenneri, new combination). (in English, with an abstract in Italian). Largen MJ, Spawls S (2010). Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 694 pp. . (Pseuderemias brenneri, p. 365). Peters W (1869). "Über neue Gattungen und neue oder weniger bekannte Arten von Amphibien (Eremias, Dicrodon, Euprepes, Lygosoma, Typhlops, Eryx, Rhychonyx, Elapomorphus, Achalinus, Coronella, Dromicus, Xenopholis, Anoplodipsas, Spilotes, Tropidonotus)". Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869: 432–447. (Eremias brenneri, new species, pp. 432–433). (in German).