The missing piece of the puzzle: A new and widespread species of the genus Rhynchocalamus Günther, 1864 (Squamata, Colubridae) from the Arabian Peninsula

Autor: Fulvio Licata, Lukáš Pola, Jiří Šmíd, Adel A. Ibrahim, André Vicente Liz, Bárbara Santos, László Patkó, Ayman Abdulkareem, Duarte V. Gonçalves, Ahmed Mohajja AlShammari, Salem Busais, Damien M. Egan, Ricardo M. O. Ramalho, Josh Smithson, José Carlos Brito

Publikováno v: Zoosystematics and Evolution, Vol 100, Iss 2, Pp 691-704 (2024)

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 secretive habits. The genus Rhynchocalamus includes five species of secretiv

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Phylogenetic relationships of the land snail; Eobania vermiculata (Müller, 1774) from Egypt and Saudi Arabia. A combined morphological and molecular analysis

Autor: Mahmoud M.A. Desouky, Salem Busais

Publikováno v: Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology, Vol 65, Iss 2, Pp 144-151 (2012)

Eobania vermiculata is a well-known circum-Mediterranean land snail having a cosmopolitan distribution that makes it suitable for phylogenetic studies. The present work examines the phylogenetic relationships of two populations of this land snail fro

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Molecular phylogeny of Lytorhynchus diadema (Reptilia, Colubridae) populations in Saudi Arabia

Autor: Ahmed Alshammari, Ahmed Badry, Salem Busais, Adel A. Ibrahim, Eman El-Abd

Publikováno v: Herpetozoa, Vol 34, Iss, Pp 271-276 (2021)
Herpetozoa 34: 271-276

This study presents the molecular phylogenetic relationships among Lytorhynchus diadema (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) populations in Saudi Arabia relative to populations from Africa and Asia. This phylogenetic analysis was based on mitochondria

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https://zenodo.org/record/5808459

Swimming through the sands of the Sahara and Arabian deserts: Phylogeny of sandfish skinks (Scincidae, Scincus) reveals a recent and rapid diversification

Autor: Jiří Šmíd, Marek Uvizl, Raed Hamoud M. AlGethami, Abdulkarim Saleh K.Alanazi, Saad Dasman Alsubaie, Mohammed Shobrak, Al Faqih Ali Salim, Abdulaziz Raqi Algethami, Salem Busais, Salvador Carranza

Publikováno v: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Digital.CSIC: Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Large parts of the Sahara Desert and Arabia are covered by sand seas and sand dunes, which are inhabited by specialized animal communities. For example, many lizards have developed adaptations to life in loose sand, including sand-swimming behavior.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10261/241813

Using multilocus approach to uncover cryptic diversity within

Autor: Salvador Carranza, Laurent Chirio, Karin Tamar, Salem Busais, Mohammed Shobrak

Publikováno v: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, Vol 26, Iss 7, Pp 1442-1449 (2019)

The agamid Pseudotrapelus lizards inhabit the mountainous areas of the Arabian Peninsula and eastern North Africa. Currently six Pseudotrapelus species are recognised, though diagnostic morphological characters are still lacking, creating great diffi

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31762607