A Survey of Amphibian Fauna in Jazan Region, Saudi Arabia

Aishah Ali Hamdi ,Samah M Fathy

doi:10.21608/eajbsz.2021.188961

Aishah Ali Hamdi , Samah M Fathy

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https://doi.org/10.21608/eajbsz.2021.188961

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Abstract

The amphibious animal is defined as a group of vertebrates relying upon water and encompassing areas. Individuals of amphibians are an essential part of environments, but they are threatened by human actions, including climate change. Amphibians can likewise give proof of natural well-being and flexibility. In spite of the fact that Jazan area has distinctive environments and fauna, the investigations of amphibian fauna in Jazan area remain ineffectively contemplated and data about its biology and appropriation is inadequate. This study was carried out to investigate the diversity of amphibians in Jazan region through hand grabbing collection of specimens from Dhamd, Abu-Arish, Samtah, Al-Aradha and Ahad Almasarha. Three types of Amphibia (Anura) belong to the family Bufonidae were recorded to include Duttaphrynus dhufarensis, Sclerophrys arabicaand Sclerophrys tihamicaamong the total of seven amphibian species present in Saudi Arabia. The current study revealed that Sclerophrys tihamicais an abundant species while the other two are rare in the study area. Additional field visits and surveys through different seasons and environments (particularly mountains and valleys locations) are recommended.

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Since the start of humankind, individuals have been worried about their condition and its capacity to give them sustenance, water, and different assets
Individuals of amphibians are an essential part of environments, but they are threatened by human actions, including climate change (Blaustein et al, 2010)
The district of Jazan is in the South-Western portion of Saudi Arabia between longitudes 42o and 43o.80' and scopes 16o and 17o

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Since the start of humankind, individuals have been worried about their condition and its capacity to give them sustenance, water, and different assets. Present-day innovation has given people enormously expanded control over nature. This influence has done nothing to decrease human reliance on natural decent variety, which just means the abundance of living things found on earth: Millions of various plants, creatures, and smaller-scale living beings, the qualities they contain and the perplexing biological communities they form. Animals of land and water often look for water, wetlands and wet soils for laying eggs and for insurance against water leaks from their thin skin Though, it cannot endure the high salt substance of oceans and are the main vertebrates that have not colonized marine living places (Capula, 1989; Abd Rabou et al, 2007). Amphibian can likewise give proof of natural well-being and flexibility (Salman et al, 2014)

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