This review describes the diversity of the freshwater, marine, and terrestrial herpetofauna of
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that consists of 128 extant species and subspecies; 121 …

Aim Deserts are generally perceived as areas of low diversity, and hence receive little
attention from researchers and conservationists. Squamates are the dominant group of …

Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species, published in 2014, was the
first catalogue of its kind and covered all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 …

The area of the Al Madinah Province is located in the central part to the north-west of the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Fig. 1), with an area of about 153,800 km2. Different types of …

Walterinnesia aegyptia is one of the most venomous snakes belonging to the family
Elapidae found in the Middle East and Africa. In addition to its ecological importance, it is …

Figure 4. Habitat of Lytorhynchus kennedyi at Wadi al Mera, Ar'ar Province. characterised by
its broadly truncated rostral shield, and the distinct pattern of the sharp and well defined …

Discovery rates of new species are uneven across taxonomic groups and regions, with
distinctive and widely distributed species being more readily described than species with …

This study provides the occurrence and distribution of snakes in Ha'il from previous literature
and supporting fieldwork, and updates the checklist of snake fauna in the area of study. The …

(Heyden, 1827), Sclerophrys arabica (Heyden, 1827) and Uromastyx ornatus Heyden, 1827.
Although Masood (2012) and Masood and Asiry (2012) reported on the snakes of Jazan and …

The country of Saudi Arabia has different and diverse environments, extending over an area
of about 2,250,000 km2. Despite the harshness of the desert and its climate, it is a shelter for …