| Titre : | Zoology in the Middle East 67(3) - July, 2021 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/07/2021 |
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Dilara Arslan, Auteur ;
Anthony Olivier, Auteur ;
Lisa Ernoul, Auteur ;
Arnaud Béchet, Auteur ;
Kerim Cicek, Auteur
The Spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca) is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, with small and fragmented populations located around the Mediterranean basin. In Turkey, this species has remained poorly studied which hampers solid assess[...]
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Giorgi Iankoshvili, Auteur ;
David Tarkhnishvili, Auteur
Twentytwo snake species are recorded for Georgia. Over three years (2017–2019), social media (Facebook, iNaturalist and Instagram) was inspected to identify new snake records for Georgia. This led to an increase in the total number of known snak[...]
Article
Muhammad Ahmad, Auteur ;
Konrad Mebert, Auteur ;
Aroub AlMasri, Auteur ;
Nahla Ibrahim, Auteur
A herpetological survey in the Syrian coastal region revealed more than 25 specimens of mountain vipers, genus Montivipera. Environmentally surprising are new records below 6QQ m elevation on both sides (west and east) of the Syrian coastal moun[...]
Article
Ahmet Karataş, Auteur ;
Şafak Bulut, Auteur ;
Burak Akbaba, Auteur
The Leopard, Panthera pardus, was thought to be extinct or on the verge of extinction in Turkey towards the end of the 20th century. However, as leopards killed by local people were reported from the Turkish-Iraqi border area in the last two dec[...]
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Elshad Askerov, Auteur ;
David P. Mallon, Auteur ;
Nugzar Zazanashvili, Auteur ;
Vazha Kochiashvili, Auteur ;
Sevinj Sarukhanova, Auteur ;
Azerchin Muradov, Auteur
Since the 1930s, the range and numbers of the Goitered Gazelle Gazella subgutturosa declined rapidly in the Caucasus and fell to a critical size in the 1960s when the species became extinct in Georgia and in most parts of the species range in Az[...]
Article
Hossein Rajaei, Auteur ;
Christian Kollhorst, Auteur ;
Axel Hausmann, Auteur ;
Dieter Stüning, Auteur
Specimens from several hitherto unknown populations of the genus Ourapteryx were collected from the Kopet Dagh Mountains in north-eastern Iran. Both morphological characters and DNA barcoding confirm that these populations belong to a new specie[...]
Article
Daniel Jablonski, Auteur ;
Abdul Basit, Auteur ;
Javeed Farooqi, Auteur ;
Rafaqat Masroor, Auteur
Laudakia nuristanica is one of the least-studied agamid lizards distributed in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Only 17 specimens are currently known in five museum collections from two neighbouring provinces of Afghanistan (Nuristan and Kunar) and the[...]
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Fatemeh Tabatabaei Yazdi, Auteur ;
Pourya Sardari, Auteur ;
Alvand Mohammadalizadegan, Auteur
Article
Bella S. Galil, Auteur ;
Guy Paz, Auteur ;
Yana Yudkovski, Auteur ;
Menachem Goren, Auteur ;
Hadas Lubinevsky, Auteur ;
Jacob Douek, Auteur ;
Baruch Rinkevich, Auteur
Lophoura edwardsi, a rarely recorded deep-water parasitic copepod, is reported for the first time from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. We document its incidence of infection in hauls made between 2014 and 2020 on the Israeli upper slope, southeas[...]



