the revised checklist of reptiles for fars province, southern iran, comprises of 63 species in 41 genera, 17 families and two orders (squamata and testudines). the most diverse suborder is the sauria with 38 species or 60.31% of the herpetofauna, followed by serpentes (23 species, 36.5%) and the testudines (2 species, 3.17%). the most diverse families are the colubridae and gekkonidae with 15 a...