The rodents’ fauna of boundary zones of Iran are still poorly known. In this research rodents fauna of Khaf township in northeast of Iran have been reported mainly based on pellets of birds of prey. Alive samples and also rodent’s remains from pellet materials of birds of prey in the present study was collected from 46 localities in Khaf, northeast of KhorasanRazavi province and different speci...

arthropods are the biggest group of invertebrate animals and due to their great morphological and physiological adaptation they are compatible with many ecosystems. they are the most imponant and biggest enemy of human being regarding to economic and medical issues. they directly (biting, sting, noise) and indirectly (transmitting pathogenic agents) cause many health problems to human. presence...

introduction: leishmanioses are important parasitic diseases presenting in three clinical forms visceral, cutaneous and muco-cutaneous. some rodents are the reservoir hosts of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis. the disease prevails in many rural areas of yazd province. this was the first comprehensive study on the fauna of rodents in yazd and was conducted to determine the fauna, distribution an...

the rodents’ fauna of boundary zones of iran are still poorly known. in this research rodents fauna of khaf township in northeast of iran have been reported mainly based on pellets of birds of prey. alive samples and also rodent’s remains from pellet materials of birds of prey in the present study was collected from 46 localities in khaf, northeast of khorasanrazavi province and different speci...

altogether, 132 rodents of 4 species of meriones persicus , cricetulus migratorius, mus muscri~ius and allactaga dater were collected with live traps from different parts of meshkin - shahr district from summer 1373 to autumn 1374. the purpose of this survey was to identify the parasitic fauna of rodents. before dissection, the mammals were measured for biometric purposes. babesia microti , see...

The Balearic Islands are an archipelago located in the Western Mediterranean Sea. Their isolation from the mainland allowed the establishment of different faunas on each of them. While in Mallorca the Pliocene fauna was composed of the so called Myotragus-fauna (mainly consisting of a bovid, a glirid and a soricid), in Menorca it was constituted by the giant rabbit-fauna (mainly consisting of a...

Ten species of aplodontid rodents are present in the Blue Ash local fauna, which currently represents the most diverse family of rodents in the assemblage. One new genus, Disallomys, is described with Allomys storeri Tedrow and Korth as the type species. Four new species are described, Disallomys robustus, D. intermedius, Prosciurus clausulus, and Niglarodon brachyodon. The aplodontids from the...

Lessa et al. (2014) make a compelling case for systematic exploration of genomes in the diverse South American rodent fauna. Not only do the caviomorph and sigmodontine rodents comprise a sizable portion of the continental fauna, but they have radiated into virtually all available habitats and have adopted practically all of the life modes exploited by rodents elsewhere. Both are diverse and de...