Delimiting species boundaries is a complex challenge usually hindered by overlooked
morphological diversification or misinterpretation of geographically structured phenotypic …

Morocco has one of the highest levels of biodiversity and endemism in the Western
Palaearctic, which is mainly attributable to the country's complex topographic and climatic …

Abstract Background The contribution of North Africa to the assembly of biodiversity within
the Western Palaearctic is still poorly documented. Since the Miocene, multiple biotic …

Aim: Discontinuity in the distribution of genetic diversity (often based on mtDNA) is usually
interpreted as evidence for phylogeographic breaks, underlying vicariant units. However, a …

Biogeographic and evolutionary patterns in the North African portion of the Western
Palaearctic are poorly known. A high fraction of undescribed diversity is expected in this …

Abstract Souss-Massa National Park (SMNP) is Morocco's first coastal national park, created
to preserve the high diversity of its continental and marine environments. Reptiles play an …

Plate tectonics constitute one of the main mechanisms of biological diversification on Earth,
often being associated with cladogenetic events at different phylogenetic levels, as well as …

An increase in studies in the Hajar Mountains from the southeastern Arabian Peninsula has
revealed a high richness of endemic evolutionary lineages with many cryptic taxa …

The burrowing scorpions of the genus Scorpio Linnaeus, 1758 were considered to be a
single polymorphic species, Scorpio maurus Linnaeus, 1758, distributed from West Africa …

We divide Saurodactylus brosseti into five species, based on molecular and morphological
characteristics. Phylogenetic analysis of two mitochondrial markers (ND4 and 12S rRNA) …