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Volume 56, 2012

Aves

Shirin Aghanajafizadeh, Mahmoud R. Hemami, Gholamreza Naderi, Fatholah Heydari: Estimation of Houbara Bustard, Chlamydotis macqueenii, population density in the central Iranian steppes (Aves: Otidae)

Sàlim Javed, Shahid B. Khan, Christophe Tourenq, Frederic Launay, Jorge Merritt: Nesting, distribution and conservation of the Crab Plover, Dromas ardeola, in the United Arab Emirates (Aves: Dromadidae)

Reptilia

Pierangelo Crucitti, Federica Emiliani: Morphological variability of the Spur-thighed Tortoise, Testudo graeca, in the Nemrut Volcano (Eastern Turkey) (Testudines: Testudinidae)

Stephen R. Goldberg: Reproduction in the Desert Lacerta, Mesalina guttulata, from Israel (Squamata: Lacertidae)

Yehudah L. Werner, Oren Gajst, Roy Talbi, Amos Bouskila: Acanthodactylus opheodurus Arnold, 1980 in the Levant revisited, and the striped patterns of Levantine Acanthodactylus (Reptilia: Lacertidae)

Savvas Zotos, Chloe Adamopoulou, Bassilis Chondropoulos, Costas Kadis, Andreas Ch. Hadjichambis, Anastasios Legakis: Evidence of sperm storage in Schreiber’s Fringe-fingered Lizard, Acanthodactylus schreiberi schreiberi, from Cyprus (Reptilia: Lacertidae)

Osteichthyes

Asghar Abdoli, Saeedeh Allahyari, Rahman Patimar, Bahram H. Kiabi: Feeding strategies of three Neogobius species in the Gomishan Wetland of Iran, South-east Caspian Sea (Osteichthyes: Gobiidae)

Cahit Kasımoğlu, Fevzi Yılmaz: Feeding habits of the Thin-lipped Grey Mullet, Liza ramada, in Gökova Bay in the southern Aegean Sea (Osteichthyes: Mugilidae)

Insecta

Ebrahim Ebrahimi, James M. Carpenter: Distribution pattern of the hornets Vespa orientalis and V. crabro in Iran (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Andrew D. Liston, Hans-Joachim Jacobs: Review of the sawfly fauna of Cyprus, with descriptions of two new species (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)

Doreen Werner, Helge Kampen: Simulium (Boophthora) erythrocephalum (De Geer, 1776) – a subgenus and species new to Armenia (Diptera: Simuliidae) – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)

Jean-Luc Gattolliat, Laurent Vuataz, Michel Sartori: First contribution to the mayflies of Jordan (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)

Arachnida

Yuri M. Marusik, Francesco Ballarin, Mikhail M. Omelko: On the Pardosa monticola-species group from Iran (Araneae: Lycosidae) – OPEN ACCESS (Free download) – OPEN ACCESS: Low resolution

Raşit Urhan: Two new species of Zercon C. L. Koch, 1836 from Turkey (Acari: Zerconidae)

Short Communications

Mahdieh Tourani, Ehsan M. Moqanaki, Bahram H. Kiabi: Vulnerability of Striped Hyaenas, Hyaena hyaena, in a human-dominated landscape of Central Iran

Mounir R. Abi-Said, Boris Kryštufek: First record of the Forest Dormouse, Dryomys nitedula (Pallas, 1799), in Lebanon (Mammalia: Rodentia)

Laith A. Jawad, Juma M. Al-Mamry, Haithem K. Al-Busaidi: First reliable record of the Sicklefin Chimaera, Neoharriotta pinnata (Schnakenbeck, 1931), from the northern Arabian Sea (Chondrichthyes: Rhinochimaeridae)

Canan Hazır, Nevin Keskin, Erwin Scheuchl: First record of four species of Andrena sand bees in Turkey (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Andrenidae)

Shalva Barjadze, Hans-Jürgen Schulz, Ulrich Burkhardt, Mikhail B. Potapov, Maka Murvanidze: New records for the Georgian springtail fauna (Collembola)

Tahir Özcan, Halil Erdoğan, Christopher Ashelby: First record of Palaemonetes mesopotamicus Pesta, 1913 (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Turkey

Cem Cevik, Levent Cavas, Deniz Erguden, Cemal Turan: A second observation of Dendrodoris fumata (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830) from the Mediterranean Sea (Nudibranchia: Dendrodorididae)

Fethi Bengil, Murat Özaydınlı, Şebnem Kuşcu, Kemal Can Bizsel: Morphometric study on the brittlestar, Amphiura chiajei Forbes, 1843 (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), in the Aegean Sea

Volume 55, 2012

Mammalia

Torsten Wronski, Khalid Alageel, Martin Plath, Mohamed A. Sandouka: Twenty years of monitoring a re-introduced population of Mountain Gazelles, Gazella gazella (Pallas, 1776), in the Ibex Reserve, Saudi Arabia

Aves

Maryam Ghadiri Khanaposhtani, Mitra Shariati Najafabadi, Mohammad Kaboli, Azita Farashi, David Spiering: Habitat requirements of the Black Woodpecker, Dryocopus martius, in Hyrcanian forests, Iran

Grzegorz Kopij, Ifat Liven-Schulman: Diet of the Lesser Kestrel, Falco naumanni, in Israel

Reptilia

Nastaran Heidari, Hiva Faizi, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani: Sexual dimorphism in Blanford’s Fringe-toed Lizard, Acanthodactylus blanfordi Boulenger, 1918, from Southern Iran

Osteichthyes

Mario Freinschlag, Robert A. Patzner: Shrimp-gobies in the southern Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea) (Osteichthyes: Gobiidae)

Crustacea

Murat Özbek: A new freshwater amphipod species, Gammarus katagani sp. nov., from Turkey (Amphipoda: Gammaridae)

Insecta

Maximilian Fischer, Ahmed Beyarslan: New species of Synaldis Foerster and Idiasta Foerster, and further records of Turkish Alysiini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae)

Sakine Hossein Nezhad, Shahrokh Pashaei Rad, Fateme Firouzi, Donat Agosti: New and additional records for the ant fauna from Iran (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)

Janko Kolarov, Saliha Çoruh: Stilbopinae, a subfamily new for the Turkish fauna (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

Adrian C. Pont, Karine Harutyunova, Maria Harutyunova, Doreen Werner: The hunter-flies of Armenia. II. The genus Lispe Latreille, 1796 (Insecta: Diptera: Muscidae) – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)

Arachnida

Tarik Danisman, Zafer Sancak, Melek Erdek, Ilhan Cosar: A new species of the genus Hersiliola Thorell, 1870 from Turkey (Araneae: Hersiliidae)

Hayriye Karabulut, Tuncay Türkeş: Description of the females of the spiders Plesiophantes joosti Heimer, 1981 and Araeoncus clavatus Tanasevitch, 1987 from Turkey (Araneae: Linyphiidae)

Matthew R. Graham, Viktória Oláh-Hemmings, Victor Fet: Phylogeography of co-distributed dune scorpions identifies the Amu Darya River as a long-standing component of Central Asian biogeography (Scorpiones: Buthidae) – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)

Ayşegül Karataş, Muhammed Mouradi Garkheloo, Münir Uçak: Contribution to the distribution of the scorpions of Iran (Arachnida: Scorpiones)

Wilson R. Lourenço, Bernard Duhem: Two new species of scorpions from the Arabian Peninsula belonging to the genera Butheolus Simon and Compsobuthus Vachon (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

Short Communications

Alaettin Kaya, Yüksel Coşkun: A new chromosomal form of Meriones tristrami Thomas, 1892 (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) in South-east Anatolia

Nuray Güven Veryeri: Postmortem examinations of stranded dolphins found on the Black Sea coast near Ordu, Turkey (Mammalia: Cetacea)

Vida Hojati, Afshin Faghiri, Abdolhossein Shiravi: Diet of the Grass Snake, Natrix natrix (Linnaeus, 1758) (Serpentes: Colubridae), in northern Iran

Yaşar Özvarol, Mehmet Gökoğlu: First record of the Indo-Pacific Milkfish, Chanos chanos (Forskål, 1775), in the Turkish Mediterranean Sea

Fabio Cassola, Drew Gardner, Gary R. Feulner, Brigitte Howarth: Callytron monalisa (W. Horn, 1927) from the Arabian Peninsula (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)

Mohammad Ali Akrami: A new species of the oribatid mite genus Berniniella Balogh, 1983 from Iran (Acari: Oribatida: Oppiidae)

Volume 54, 2011

Aves

Ortaç Onmuş, Mehmet Sıkı, Gürdoğar Sarıgül, Alain J. Crivelli: Status and development of the population of the globally threatened Dalmatian Pelican, Pelecanus crispus, in Turkey - 3

Reptilia

Saman R. Afrasiab, Sarbaz I. Mohamad: First record of the Rat Snake, Zamenis hohenackeri (Strauch, 1873), from north-eastern Iraq with notes on other colubrid snakes - 19

Osteichthyes

Miriam Reininger: Mimicry in juvenile wrasses: ecological and behavioural aspects of a Coris-Amphiprion relationship in the northern Red Sea - 23

Mollusca

Ulrich Bößneck: New records of freshwater and land molluscs from Lebanon - 35

Bilal Öztürk, Banu Bitlis, Meltem Er Filiz: The genus Chrysallida Carpenter, 1856 on the Turkish coasts - 53

Insecta

Fatih Dikmen, Vladimir G. Radchenko, A. Murat Aytekin: Taxonomic studies on the genus Halictus Latreille, 1804 in Turkey - 79

Gamal M. Orabi, Fayez M. Semida, Mahmoud S. Abdel-Dayem, Mostafa R. Sharaf, Samy M. Zalat: Diversity patterns of ants along an elevation gradient at St. Catherine Protectorate, South Sinai, Egypt – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)

Babak Gharali, Neal Evenhuis, Hosseinali Lotfalizadeh: Two new species of the genus Empidideicus Becker, 1907 from northern Iran - 113

Ünal Zeybekoğlu, Abbas Mol, Murat Karavin: Morphological and acoustic analysis of Cicada Linnaeus, 1758 species in Turkey - 121

Short Communications

Farzaneh Etezadifar, Ahmad Barati: Nestling diet of the Western Reef Heron, Egretta gularis, in Hara Biosphere Reserve, Persian Gulf - 131

Göran Nilson, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani: On the occurrence of Eirenis coronelloides (Jan, 1862) in western Iran (Reptilia: Colubridae) - 133

Mustafa A. Al-Mukhtar, Laith A. Jawad, Abbas J. Al-Faisal, Fawzei Mustafa: Dotted Grouper, Epinephelus epistictus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842) (Osteichthyes: Serranidae), recorded from the marine waters of Iraq - 136

Mehmet Gökoğlu, Mustafa Ünlüsayın, Beytullah Ahmet Balcı, Yaşar Özvarol, Halil Çolak: Two alien fish in the Gulf of Antalya: Apogon queketti Gilchrist, 1903 (Apogonidae) and Champsodon nudivittis (Ogilby, 1895) (Champsodontidae) - 138

Sergio Ragonese, Giovanbattista Giusto: Deep water occurrence of Penaeus semisulcatus De Haan, 1850, in the North Levant (Eastern Mediterranean Sea) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Penaeidae) - 141

Sinan Anlaş, Edward A. Khachikov, İnanç Özgen: On the genus Achenium Leach, 1819 from Turkey and adjacent regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae) - 144

Mohammad Ali Akrami, Maryam Majidi, Moslem Behmanesh: A new species of oribatid mite from Iran (Acari: Oribatida) - 147

Bülent Gözcelioğlu, Rob van Soest, Peter Proksh, Belma Konuklugil: Contribution to the knowledge of the Demospongiae (Porifera) fauna of Turkey - 149

Volume 53, 2011

Aves

Shirin Aghanajafizadeh, Fatholah Heydari, Gholamreza Naderi, M. R. Hemami: Nesting hole site selection by the Syrian Woodpecker, Dendrocopos syriacus, in Yazd province, Iran – 3

Zeynel Arslangündoğdu, Cem Dalyan, Ergün Bacak, Ümit Yardım, Cemil Gezgin, Vedat Beşkardeş: Spring migration of the White Stork, Ciconia ciconia, and the Black Stork, Ciconia nigra, over the Bosphorus – 7

Monif AlRashidi, András Kosztolányi, Mohammed Shobrak, Tamás Székely: Breeding ecology of the Kentish Plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, in the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia – 15

Reptilia

Salem Busais, Ulrich Joger: Molecular phylogeny of the gecko genus Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 on the mainland of Yemen –25

Nastaran Heidari, Hiva Faizi, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani: Sexual dimorphism in the Persian Gecko, Hemidactylus persicus Anderson, 1872, in Hormozgan Province, Southern Iran – 35

Amphibia

Kerim Çiçek, Ahmet Mermer, Cemal Varol Tok: Population dynamics of Rana macrocnemis Boulenger, 1885 at Uludağ, Western Turkey – 41

Osteichthyes

Yusuf Bektaş, Yılmaz Çiftçi, Oğuzhan Eroğlu, Ali Osman Beldüz: Genetic discrimination of two Capoeta species in north-eastern Anatolia, using mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene – 61

Crustacea

Murat Özbek: An overview of the Gammarus Fabricius (Gammaridae: Amphipoda) species of Turkey, with an updated checklist – 71

Insecta

Erol Atay, Erdinç Oğur: Occurrence of species of Pyralidae and Crambidae in Cyprus (Lepidoptera) – 79

Kevin Austin, Christodoulos Makris, Emma Small: Ground beetles of the Akrotiri peninsula, Cyprus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) – 87

Ahmet Beyarslan: Orgilus (Orgilus) elazigensis sp. n. from Eastern Turkey (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Orgilinae) – 95

Neveen S. Gadallah, Amal F. El-Barty: Spider wasps collected from the western region of Saudi Arabia – 99

Mohammad Naser Murai, Zuhair S. Amr: Sphecidae and Crabronidae of the Al Thawrah Nature Reserve, northern Syria, with a checklist of the species known from Syria (Insecta: Hymenoptera) – 107

Arachnida

Abdullah Bayram, Nazife Yiğit, Melek Erdek, Halil Koç, Zafer Sancak, Abdullah Melekoğlu, İlkay Çorak Öcal: Comparative cheliceral morphology of the solifuge species Biton zederbaueri (Werner) and Gluviopsilla discolor (Kraepelin) through scanning electron microscopy – 121

Short Communications

Ali Miroğlu: First record of the Black Darter, Sympetrum danae (Sulzer, 1776) (Odonata: Libellulidae), from Turkey – 129

Murat Biricik: First record of Junonia orithya (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Turkey – 130

Selma Seven Çalışkan, Mustafa Özdemir : Two new records for the Olethreutinae fauna of Turkey (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) – 133

Adile Akpınar, Muhammed İsmail Varol, Abdullah Bayram: New records of funnel web spiders of the genus Malthonica Simon from Turkey (Araneae: Agelenidae) – 135

Mostafa Mirzaie, Karim Haddad Irani-Nejad, Mohammad Ali Akrami: New records of primitive oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from the Shendabad region (East Azerbaijan province), Iran – 137

Volume 52, 2011

Mammalia

Adwan H. Shehab, Samir A. Al-Ahmad, Fauzy F. Samara:  Morphology and distribution of the Indian Gerbil, Tatera indica (Hardwicke, 1807), in Syria - 3

Tamer Albayrak: Anthropogenic barriers to the distribution of the Grey Wolf (Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758) in the Beydağları Mountains area, Turkey - 11

Reptilia

Jacqueline Loos, Tamar Dayan, Nora Drescher, Tal Levanony, Erez Maza, Boaz Shacham, Roy Talbi, Thorsten Assmann: Habitat preferences of the Levant Green Lizard, Lacerta media israelica (Peters, 1964) - 17

Bektaş Sönmez, Cemal Turan, Şükran Yalçın Özdilek: The effect of relocation on the morphology of Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758), hatchlings on Samandağ beach, Turkey - 29

Amphibia

Eyup Başkale, Ferah Sayım, Şamil Yıldırım, Mehmet Kutsay Atatür, Uğur Kaya: Reproductive ecology and body size-fecundity relationships of the Green Toad, Pseudepidalea viridis (Laurenti, 1768), in the Kocaçay Stream, Izmir, Turkey - 39

Osteichthyes

Majid Bakhtiyari, Shafagh Kamal, Asghar Abdoli, Hamid Reza Esmaeli, Mehrgan Ebrahimi: Comparison of the feeding behaviour and strategy of the Killifish, Aphanius sophiae Heckel, 1847, at two different localities in Iran - 47

Ahmet Mutlu Gözler, Semih Engin, Davut Turan, Cemalettin Şahin: Age, growth and fecundity of the Turkish Brook Lamprey, Eudontomyzon lanceolata (Kux & Steiner, 1972), in north-eastern Turkey - 57

Insecta

Aref Dia, Henri J Dumont: The Odonata of Lebanon - 63

Fateme Firouzi, Shahrokh Pashaei Rad, Sakine Hossein Nezhad, Donat Agosti: Four new records of ants from Iran - 71

Seyed Massoud Madjdzadeh, Hassan Ali Dawah, Mike Bruford: Morphometric differentiation of Tetramesa leucospae Zerova & Madjdzadeh, 2005, populations associated with two geographically isolated grass species in Iran - 79

Adrian C. Pont, Nikita Vikhrev, Doreen Werner: The hunter-flies of Armenia. I. Some species of the genus Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy, with the description of a new species - 89

Acari

Alireza Saboori, Mohammad Bagheri: A new species of Smaris Latreille, 1796 from Iran - 105

Short Communications

Rahimeh Baramaki Yazdi, Maryam Shaghoozaie, Somayeh Galdavi, Mostafa Yousef Elahi, Mohsen Shahriar Moghadam, Nahid Shokri Bousjein, Mohammad Javidkar: Identification of a new morphotype of the Indian Gerbil, Tatera indica Hardwicke, 1807 (Muridae, Rodentia), from Iran - 111

Michael Heiss: The first breeding record of the Red-footed Falcon, Falco vespertinus (Linnaeus, 1766), in Azerbaijan - 113

Bayram Öztürk, Arda M. Tonay, Aylin Akkaya, Ayaka Amaha Öztürk, Ayhan Dede: Stranding of a Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758), in the Turkish Black Sea - 115

Julia L. Y. Spaet, Jesse E. M. Cochran, Michael L. Berumen: First record of the Pigeye Shark, Carcharhinus amboinensis (Müller & Henle, 1839) (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae), in the Red Sea - 118

Gökhan Aydın: Conservation status of the Tiger Beetle Calomera aphrodisia (Baudi di Selve, 1864) in Turkey (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) - 121

Hassan Ghahari, Reijo Jussila: Five species of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) new to Iran - 123

Kerem Bakır, Tuncer Katağan: On the occurrence of Caprella scaura Templeton, 1836 (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in Turkish waters - 125

Kamil Koç: Three new records of cheyletid mites from Turkey (Acari: Cheyletidae) – 126

Volume 51, 2010

Mammalia

Fatemeh Hosseini-Zavarei, Mohammad S. Farhadinia, Mahmoud-Reza Hemami, Mahmoud Karami, Rahman Daniali and Maryam Omidi: Sex-age structure of bovids in Ghameshlou, Central Iran - 3

Aves

Perri Eason, Bassim Rabea, Omar Attum: Conservation implications of flight initiation distance and refuge use in Corn Crakes Crex crex at a migration stopover site - 9

Elif Yamaç, Evrim Günyel: Diet of the Eurasian Black Vulture, Aegypius monachus Linnaeus, 1766, in Turkey and implications for its conservation - 15

Reptilia

Abdul-Rahman Al-Sirhan, Gary Brown: The status of the two Toad-headed Agamas, Phrynocephalus arabicus (Anderson, 1894) and P. maculatus (Anderson, 1872), in Kuwait - 23

Faraham Ahmadzadeh, Vida Hojati, Afshin Faghiri: Morphological variation between three populations of the Caspian Bent-toed Gecko, Cyrtopodion caspium (Eichwald, 1831) in Northern Iran: evidence for incipient speciation? - 31

Nawal Al-Mukhaini, Taher A. Ba-Omar, Ibrahim Y. Mahmoud, Sulyma Al-Barwani: Embryonic staging of the Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) - 39

Amphibia

Elnaz Najafimajd, Uğur Kaya: A newly found locality for the critically endangered Yellow Spotted Newt, Neurergus microspilotus (Nesterov, 1917) nourishes hope for its conservation - 51

Osteichthyes

Rahman Patimar, Mossaieb Ghasemi Chalanchi, Vahid Chamanara, Loghman Naderi: Some life history aspects of Garra rufa (Heckel, 1843) in the Kangir River, Western Iran - 57

Mollusca

Torsten Wronski: The molluscan bio-fouling community on the Red Sea pearl oyster beds - 67

Insecta

Zubair Ahmed, Allen F. Sanborn, Kathy B. R. Hill: A new species of the cicada genus Cicadatra from Pakistan - 75

Ali Nafiz Ekiz, Ismail Şen, Ali Gök: Variation in Cryptocephalus (Protophysus) wehnckei Weise, 1882 with a redescription of the poorly known female - 83

Martin Lillig: A new species of the genus Phaleria Latreille, 1802 from Dhofar in Oman - 89

David Ward, Iris Musli, Keren Or, Thomas Gbenro, Orit Skutelsky: Bruchid seed infestation and development time in three host species of Acacia - 95

Faez Mousatat, Henri J. Dumont, Mahmod Karrom, Nakwan Mouhamad Ali: Dragonflies from northern Syria - 105

Short Communications

Leila Abdoli, Ehsan Kamrani, Asghar Abdoli, Bahram Kiabi: Age and growth of the Mudskipper, Scartelaos tenuis (Day, 1876) (Gobiidae: Oxudercinae), in the coastal areas of the Persian Gulf at Bushehr province, Iran - 113

Erhan Akamca, Sinan Mavruk, Caner E. Özyurt, Volkan Barış Kiyağa, Meltem Manaşırlı: Two new Lessepsian species found in the north-eastern Levantine Basin: Broadbanded Cardinalfish (Apogon fasciatus (White, 1790)) and Indian Scad (Decapterus russelli (Rüppell, 1830)) (Osteichthyes - 116

Fatemeh Ashrafi, Shahrokh Pashaei Rad: A new record of the subfamily Syrphinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) for the Iranian fauna – 119

Special Issue (Supplementum) 1, 2003

The Darkling Beetles of the Sinai Peninsula

Martin Lillig & Tomas Pavlicek: The Darkling Beetlesof the Sinai Peninsula

Special Issue (Supplementum) 2, 2010

(Advances in Earthworm Taxonomy IV) (Annelida: Oligochaeta)

Robert J. Blakemore: Saga of Herr Hilgendorf’s worms… (Oligochaeta, Megascolecidae) – 7.

Gergely Boros, Gabor Cech, Eszter Ari, Klara Dozsa-Farkas: Extension of employing ITS region in the investigation of Hungarian Fridericia species (Oligochaeta: Enchytraeidae) - 23

Stephane Boyer, Stephen D. Wratten

Using molecular tools to identify New Zealand endemic earthworms in a mine restoration project (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae) – 31.

Klara Dozsa-Farkas: Significance of using nephridia in the taxonomy of family Enchytraeidae (Annelida: Oligochaeta) – 41.

Jadwiga Danuta Plisko: Remarks on the South African endemic Proandricus lesothoensis species-group (Oligochaeta: Microchaetidae) – 55.

Veronika S. Abukenova, Marat R. Khanturin: Adaptive features of life forms in Aporrectodea caliginosa (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) – 58.

Somayeh Ezzatpanah, Latif Robabeh, Malek Masoumeh, Salehi Hasan: Earthworm fauna of the western Mazandaran province, Iran (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae) – 67.

Annely Kuu, Mari Ivask: Distribution of Octolasion cyaneum (Savigny, 1826) in Estonia 1993-2008 (Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae) – 75.

Mete Misirlioglu: Distribution of endemic earthworm species in Turkey (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) – 83.

Adriana Antonia Pop, Victor V. Pop, Csaba Csuzdi: Significance of the Apuseni Mountains (the Carpathians) in the origin and distribution of Central European earthworm fauna (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) - 89.

Naime Arslan, Arzu Çiçek, Cansev Akkan, Deniz Kilinç, Emrah Aci: Accumulation of heavy metals by earthworms in boron-contaminated area (Kırka-Eskişehir) (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) – 111.

Davorka Jaric, Branimir K. Hackenberger, Stjepan Krcmar: The characteristics of earthworm communities along vertically stratified transect of Velika Kapela Mountain grasslands (Croatia) (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) – 117.

Cynthia Ramos, Monica Alfaro, Sonia Borges, Jose A. Amador: Earthworm taxonomic structure of coffee plantations at three soil associations in Puerto Rico (Oligochaeta: Glossoscolecidae, Megascolecidae) – 125.

Satyendra M. Singh, Om Prakash, Geeta R. Gangwar, Rachna: Species richness and density of earthworms in western Uttar Pradesh, India (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae, Octochaetidae) – 133.

Irina Victorovna Zenkova: Diversity of earthworms and ecology of the dominating species Lumbricus rubellus Hoffmeister, 1843 in the northern taiga podzols of the Murmansk region (Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae) – 141.

Seray Yildiz, M. Rusen Ustaoglu, Süleyman Balik: Littoral Oligochaeta (Lumbriculidae and Enchytraeidae) communities of some mountain lakes in the Eastern Black Sea Range (Turkey) – 151.

Veronika S. Abukenova: Earthworm fauna of Kazakh upland (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) – 161.

Yu Shen: Earthworms in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae) – 171.

Evangelia Vavoulidou, Loukia Dellaporta, Dimitris Joannis Bilalis: Collagen distribution in the tissue of the earthworm Octodrilus complanatus (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) – 175.

Special Issue (Supplementum) 3, 2011

(Biodiversity Conservation in the Arabian Peninsula)

Introduction

Philip Seddon, David Mallon, Mike Knight: Preface - 5

Abdulaziz al Midfa, David Mallon, Kevin Budd: Ten Years of Conservation Workshops for the Fauna of Arabia 2000-2009 - 7

Regional Approaches

David P. Mallon: Global hotspots in the Arabian Peninsula - 13

Khaldoun Al Omari: Protected Areas in the Arabian Peninsula - 21

Mohammed Shobrak: Bird flyways and stopover conservation sites in the Arabian Peninsula - 27

Kay Van Damme, Lisa Banfield: Past and present human impacts on the biodiversity of Socotra Island (Yemen): Implications for future conservation - 31

Species Approaches

Ahmad M. Disi: Review of the lizard fauna of Jordan (Reptilia: Sauria) - 89

Jackie Strick, Paul Vercammen, Jacky Judas, Olivier Combreau: Satellite tracking of a rehabilitated Greater Spotted Eagle Aquila clanga - 103

Olivier Combreau, Samuel Riou, Jacky Judas, Mark Lawrence: Population structure, migratory connectivity and inference on gene exchange mechanisms in the Asian Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis macqueenii: a summary of recent findings - 107

Carlos A. Fernandes: Colonization time of Arabia by the White-tailed Mongoose Ichneumia albicauda as inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences (Mammalia: Herpestidae) - 111

M. Zafar-ul Islam, Khairi Ismail, Ahmed Boug: Restoration of the endangered Arabian Oryx Oryx leucoryx, Pallas 1766 in Saudi Arabia: lessons learnt from the twenty years of re-introduction in arid fenced and unfenced protected areas (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) - 125

Jane Budd, Kristin Leus: The Arabian Leopard Panthera pardus nimr conservation breeding programme - 141

Methodologies

Kristin Leus: Captive breeding and conservation - 151

Mark R Stanley Price: Re-introductions in today’s Arabian Peninsula:  The first steps for a grander vision? - 159

Matthew Hall, Anthony G. Miller: Strategic requirements for plant conservation in the Arabian Peninsula - 169

Michael H. Knight, Philip J. Seddon, Abdulaziz Al Midfa: Transboundary conservation initiatives and opportunities in the Arabian Peninsula - 183

Stephen Holness, Mike Knight, Mark Sorensen, Yasser Ramadan Ahmed Othman: Towards a systematic conservation plan for the Arabian Peninsula - 197

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