Annotated checklist of amphibians and reptiles of Qom Province, central Iran

Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics

مقاله 3، دوره 11، شماره 1، 2015، صفحه 23-31   

نوع مقاله: Research articles

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22067/ijab.v11i1.37543

نویسندگان

Seyed Mahdi Kazemi^{* 1}؛ Eskandar Rastegar Pouyani²؛ Seyyed Ahmad Shafiei Darabi³؛ Masoud Ebrahim Tehrani⁴؛ Mahboubeh Sadat Hosseinzadeh⁵؛ Meysam Mashayekhi⁴؛ A. Mobaraki⁶

¹Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran

²Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran

³Department of Plant physiology, Faculty of Biology, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran

⁴Department of Environment, Biodiversity and Wildlife Bureau, Tehran, Iran

⁵Department of Biology, Faculty of science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

⁶Department of Environment and Energy, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

چکیده

The updated checklist of amphibians and reptiles of Qom Province, Central Iran is presented. Totally 46 species, 35 genera and 17 families of reptiles and amphibians are reported in the area. The most diverse suborder is serpentes with 19 species or 41.3% of the reptile species richness of the region. The most specious families with high diversification are ranked respectively: Colubridae with 11 species (23.91%), Agamidae (seven species, 15.21%), Lacertidae and Gekkonidae (each of which with five species, 10.86%), Scincidae (four species, 8.69%), Natricidae and Viperidae (each of which with two species, 4.3%), Bufonidae, Ranidae, Geoemydidae, Testudinidae, Anguidae, Varanidae, Typhlopidae, Erycidae, Lamprophiidae and Psammophiidae with a single species of each.

کلیدواژه‌ها

herpetofauna؛ Qom؛ type species؛ record؛ taxon

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