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Lizard Community in Tathleeth District of Southwestern Saudi Arabia

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Tathleeth governorate in Aseer region of southwestern Saudi Arabia has been surveyed for 22 lizard species belonging to 6 families throughout three years started from 2015. A total of 412 specimens of these lizards were encountered and identified. Gekkonidae represented the major family inhabiting the region comprising more than 50% of the collected lizards. Agamidae was represented by 5 species comprising more than 23% of the recorded lizards. The other four families (Lacertidae, Scincidae, Chamaeleonidae and Varanidae) comprised approximately 20% of all the collected lizards. The current survey could be used as conservational clue for the herpetofauna of Tathleeth.

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10.21608/eajbsz.2018.13427

Keywords

Herpetofauna, Tathleeth, lizards, biodiversity

Authors

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Abdulaziz

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Alqahtani

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R.M.

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Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Bisha, P.O. 551, Bisha, Saudi Arabia

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arabe@ub.edu.sa

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10

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1

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2587

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2018-06-01

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2018-09-12

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2018-06-01

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29

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34

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2090-0759

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2090-0821

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672

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Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, B. Zoology

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Lizard Community in Tathleeth District of Southwestern Saudi Arabia

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22 Jan 2023