abstract the present work aims to determine fauna and abundance of hermit crabs in the southern qeshm island. for these aims, after preview of coastal zone, eight stations were selected in the intertidal zones of southern qeshm island. sampling in these stations was conducted during the dec. 2013. totally, 605 specimens of hermit crabs were studied and calculated. for identification and accurat...

The Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca complex has a wide distribution in the east and west Palaearctic comprises phenotypically very similar, but genetically distinct forms. In order to determine origin of birds wintering on Qeshm Island Persian Gulf, we studied nucleotide sequences mitochondrial cytochrome b gene 23 individuals compared them with publicly available Gen-Bank. from were attribut...

background: scorpions are known as the most widespread poisonous creatures that cause casualties and death to human. they are distributed in tropical and subtropical areas. among the sixteen iranian island in the persian gulf, qeshm island is the biggest and is located in the focus of the important internal and international commercial marinelines. furthermore, thousands of tourists also visit ...

The study investigated the stomach contents of Indian mackerel (Rastrelliger kanagurta) from the southern part of Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf from April 2016 through March 2017. The food and feeding behavior of R. kanagurta with a fork length of 17.8 to 22.5 cm was assessed from the analysis of gut contents. The frequency of occurrence and numeric methods were used for stomach content anal...

visceral leishmaniasis (vl) is a sever disease that is prevalent in iran. we report a case of vl in a 3.5 year-old boy. prolonged fever, chill, abdominal distention, and weight loss were important symptoms. blood count showed pancytopenia and hypohemoglobinemia. specific anti-leishmanial antibodies were detected by serological test (ifat, dat) but no leishman body was observed in bone marrow. h...

monogenetic termatodes are exoparasites of iranian freshwater fishes with high pervalency in both wild and cultured fishes which cause economoic loss each year. the aim of the present study was to detect parasites of gills in yellow- fin seabreams of persian gulf. this study was conducted for one year (between autumn 2007 to autumn 2008) on both wild and cultured yellow-fin seabreams of persian...