BACKGROUND The Hajar Mountains of Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the highest mountain range in Eastern Arabia. As a result of their old geological origin, geographical isolation, complex topography and local climate, these mountains provide an important refuge for endemic and relict species of plants and animals with strong Indo-Iranian affinities. Among vertebrates, the rock climbi...

a review of the known iranian species of the genus asaccus is presented. the genus asaccus is divided into two distinct geographical lineages. the nominotypical group is endemic to the mesopotamian region (western iran, eastern iraq, turkey and syria), and includes asaccus elisae, a. griseonatus, a. kermanshahensis, a. kurdistanensis, a. nasrullahi and a. saffinae, all restricted to the zagros ...

A study on the parasitofauna of 7 species of Iraqi reptiles revealed the presence of at least 8 adult helminth species and some tentatively identified larvae. The reptiles were Hemidactylus flaviviridis, H. persicus, Asaccus elisae, Spalerosophis d. cliffordi, Testudo g. terrestris, Mauremys c. caspica and Trionyx euphraticus. The helminths found comprised 1 species of digenetic trematodes (Tel...

پیرو یافتن تک‌یاخته­ی Hepatozoon canis و نماتود Cercopithifilaria bainae در سگ­های ایران، این مطالعه با هدف تشخیص ناقلین بالقوه­ی دو انگل میان کنه­های جمع­آوری شده از ۵ استان ایران انجام شد. مهر ماه 1397 تا خرداد 1401 تعداد 222 قلاده سگ صاحبدار 541 ولگرد استان­های­ همدان (305 قلاده)، کرمانشاه (227 یزد (80 خوزستان (71 قلاده) مازندران جهت آلودگی به کنه­ مورد بررسی قرار گرفتند. جمع آوری (3339 عدد)...

There exist hundreds of cultivated tropical and subtropical fruit species, most of which are arboreal. Among these are mango (Mangifera indica), which thrives from the equator (zone 11) to the subtropical limits of tropical zone 10b of the northern and southern hemispheres (Cathey, 1990; Jordan, 2001); Citrus sp., which have a growing range that extends for some species from near the equator in...