Bibliography of the reptiles of Iraq / RepFocus

Home - Taxonomy - Geography - Biodiversity - Literature - Purchase RepFocus

Recent updates

Related bibliographies:

Middle East

Reptiles

Lizards

Snakes

Boidae

Turtles

Trionychidae

Bibliography of the reptiles of
Iraq

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.

Afrasiab, S.R.; Ali, H.A. 1989. Report on a collection of reptiles from Rumaila Desert, south of Iraq. Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum (University of Baghdad) 8(2): 65-73.

Afrasiab, S.R.; Mohamad, S.I. 2014. New records of snakes from Iraq (Reptilia: Colubridae). Zoology in the Middle East 60(1): 92-94.

Afrasiab, S.R.; Mohamad, S.I.; Hossain, R.H. 2013. A review of the Lacertini of Iraq in Iraqi collections (Squamata: Sauria: Lacertidae). Herpetozoa 25(3-4): 93-100.

Al-Barazengy, A.N.; Salman, A.O.; Hameed, F.T.A. 2015. Updated list of amphibians and reptiles in Iraq 2014. Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum 13(4): 29-40.

Allouse, B.E. 1955. A bibliography on the vertebrate fauna of Iraq and neighboring countries. III. reptiles and amphibians. Iraq Natural History Museum Publication 6: 1-26.

Amr, Z.S. 2009. Reptiles and amphibians of Iraq. Publication no. NI-0209-003, Nature Iraq Office, Sulaimani, Iraq. 9 pp.

Angel, F. 1936. Reptiles et batraciens de Syrie et de Mésopotamie récoltés par M.P. Pallary. Bulletin Inst. Egypt 18: 107-116.

Bosch, H.A.J. in den 2003. Iraqi herpetology: an introductory checklist. Podarcis 4(2): 53-72.

Boulenger, G.A. 1920. A list of lizards from Mesopotamia, collected by members of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force 1915-1919. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 27: 351-353. (N.B. At least two reprints of this exist, each with different pagination.)

Corkill, N.L. 1932. An inquiry into snakebite in Iraq. Ind. J. Med. Res. 20: 599-625.

Corkill, N.L. 1932. Snakes and snake bite in Iraq. Baillière, Tindall & Cox, London. 51 pp.

Corkill, N.L. 1932. The snakes of Iraq. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 35: 552-572.

Corkill, N.L. 1933. An inquiry into snakebite in Iraq. Ind. J. Med. Res. 20: 679-696.

Haas, G. 1952. Two collections of reptiles from Iraq, with descriptions of two new forms. Copeia 1952: 20-22.

Haas, G.; Werner, Y.L. 1969. Lizards and snakes from southwestern Asia, collected by Henry Field. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 138(6): 327-405.

Habeeb, I.N.; Rastegar-Pouyani, N. 2016. Geographical distribution of the snakes of Iraq. Mesopotamia Environmental Journal 2(3): 67-77.

Kennedy, W.P. 1937. Some additions to the fauna of Iraq. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 39(4): 745-749.

Kennedy, W.P. 1937. Some additions to the fauna of Iraq. (Reptilia and Amphibia, pp. 747-749). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 39: Unpaginated.

Khalaf, K.T. 1959. The reptiles of Iraq, with some notes on the amphibians. Ar-Rabitta Press, Baghdad. 96 pp.

Khalaf, K.T. 1960. Notes on a collection of lizards and snakes from Iraq. Iraq Nat. Hist. Mus. Pub. 18: 12-18.

Khalaf, K.T. 1961. Some new records of lizards to Iraq. Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum 1(6): 1-2.

Khalaf, K.T. 1963. Faunistic notes in Iraq. Bulletin Iraq Nat. Hist. Inst., Univ. Baghdad 2(8): 1-12.

Leviton, A.E.; Anderson, S.C.; Adler, K.; Minton, S.A. 1992. Handbook to Middle East amphibians and reptiles. SSAR (Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles). 252 pp. (Contributions to Herpetology no. 8).

Mahdi, N.; Georg, P.V. 1969. A systematic list of the vertebrates of Iraq. Iraq Natural History Museum Publication 26: 1-104.

Mawe, A.D. 2010. Iraq: the unknown frontier. Part 1. Herptile 35(3): 109-116.

Mawe, A.D. 2010. Iraq: the unknown frontier. Part 2. Herptile 35(4): 142-147.

Mawe, A.D. 2011. Iraq: the unknown frontier. Part 3. Herptile 36(1): 12-20.

Mertens, R. 1924. Amphibien und Reptilien aus dem nördlichen Mesopotamien. Abhandlungen und Berichte aus dem Museum für Natur- und Heimatkunde und dem Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein in Magdeburg 3(5): 349-391.

Mertens, R. 1924. Ein neuer gecko aus Mesopotamia. Senckenbergiana Biologica 6: 84.

Mohammad, M.K.; Al-Zubaidi, A.A. 2014. Potentials of geodiversity for biodiversity at Ga'ara Depression, Iraqi Western Desert. Advances in Bioresearch 5(1): 169-177.

Mohammed, R.G.; Rastegar-Pouyani, N.; Karamiani, R.; Rhadi, F.A. 2015. The lizard fauna of Al-Najaf Province, southern Iraq. Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Science Science Journal 36(6)(Special Issue): 1252-1261.

Mohammed, R.G.; Rhadi, F.A.; Rastegar-Pouyani, N.; Rastegar-Pouyani, E.; Yousefkhani, S.S.H. 2017. Zoogeography of lizards fauna from Central and southern Iraq with a checklist of Iraqi lizard’s fauna. Russian Journal of Herpetology 24(3): 193-201.

Nader, I.A.; Jawdat, S.Z. 1976. Taxonomic study of the geckos of Iraq (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Bulletin of the Biological Research Centre (Baghdad) 5: 1-41.

Niazi, A.D. 1976. The Iraqi Lacerta - its taxonomy, geographical distribution and natural history remarks. Bulletin of the Natural History Research Centre University of Baghdad 7(1): 16-37.

Ogushi, K. 1913. Bemerkung zu Siebenkrocks neu erschienener Arbeit "Schildkröten aus Syrien und Mesopotamien". Anatomischer Anzeiger 45: 96-102.

Pietschmann, V. 1912. Die Österreichische Expedition nach Mesopotamien im Jahre 1910. Vortr. Ver. Verbr. Naturwiss. Kennt. Wien 52: pp. ?

Procter, J.B. 1921. Further lizards and snakes from Persia and Mesopotamia. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28: 251-253.

Quaintance, C.W. 1954. Studying the fauna of Iraq: An outline of the work of the Natural History Museum, Baghdad. Iraq Petroleum Co. 4(3): 24-29.

Reed, C.A.; Marx, H. 1959. A herpetological collection from northeastern Iraq. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 62: 91-122.

Rhadi, F.A.; Mohammed, R.G.; Rastegar-Pouyani, N.; Rastegar-Pouyani, E.; Yousefkhani, S.S.H. 2017. On the snake fauna of Central and southern Iraq and some zoogeographic remarks. Russian Journal of Herpetology 24(4): 251-266.

Siebenrock, F. 1913. Schildkröten aus Syrien und Mesopotamien. Annalen des Kaiserlich-Königlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums (Wien) 27: 171-225.

Weber, N.A. 1960. Some Iraqi amphibians and reptiles with notes on their food habits. Copeia 1960(2): 153-154.

Werner, F. 1895. Über eine Sammlung von Reptilien aus Persien, Mesopotamien und Arabien. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 45: 13-20.

Wolter, O. 1917. Feldpostbriefe aus Mesopotamien. Blätter für Aquarien- und Terrarienkunde 28: 334.

Wolter, O. 1918. Feldpostbriefe aus Mesopotamien. Blätter für Aquarien- und Terrarienkunde 29: 71-72, 84-85, 95, 204, 214-215, 230-231, 280, 289-291.

Wolter, O. 1919. Feldpostbriefe aus Mesopotamien. Blätter für Aquarien- und Terrarienkunde 30: 15, 336-339, 351-354, 365-366.