background: scorpions’ stings and their own mortalities place them among the most important health and medical problems. the dreadful features and especially their poisonous stings are considered a major cause of human stress and abhorrence/phobia. the current study aimed to study the scorpion fauna of ilam province, south western iran in order to manage scorpionism related problems. methods: i...

b a ckground : this study aimed to identify and determine the larval and adult mosquitoes (culicidae) fauna in hamedan county, western iran. m e t hods: it was a cross-sectional study which took place in four area of the hamedan county. sampling methods for larvae, pupae and adults were dipping, hand catch, night catch and total catch. larvae and adult mosquitoes col- lected and were sent to la...

in order to optimize sludge depth in sand drying beds under the climatic conditions of saudi arabia, the effect of initial sludge depth on the fate of pathogens was investigated.the investigation was carried out for one year in al-khobar wastewater treatment plant, where initial sludge depths of 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35 cm were implemented. sludge samples were collected on 0, 1, 2, 4, 7, 14, a...

Biological response and ecological indices of benthic communities, such as greater mortality of foraminifera and shell abnormalities, have been used to document pollution effects on ecosystems. Shadegan Wetland was damaged from a deposition of huge amounts of soot and products of burning oilwells of Kuwait as well as chronic exhaust fumes of refinery and industrial furnaces. In this investigati...

As part of a larger comparative study, marine polychaete hard-bottom assemblages were surveyed using artificial substrate units (ASUs) deployed at four sites off the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The polychaete fauna was represented by 19 families comprising 89 species. The syllid Exogone dispar was the most abundant polychaete followed closely by the serpulid Pseudovermilia occidentalis. At ...

Two species of soricids are present in the Chadronian Medicine Pole Hills Local Fauna, Domnina cf. D. thompsoni and a new species of Domnina described herein. The new species is the third Chadronian species of Domnina and differs from other species in being larger and in having the M2 nearly the same size as the M1. The most similar described material is from the Uintan Swift Current Local Faun...