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Vincent Rivière

  • Biodiversity Journal, 7 (3): 325-330

    Pietro Lo Cascio & Vincent Rivière
    An updated herpetofaunal inventory for some islets of South-Eastern Tunisia

    ABSTRACT
    The present paper provides the results of the herpetological investigations carried out on the satellite islets of Djerba and the Kneiss Archipelago, and an updated list of their herpetofauna. On the whole, the faunal assemblage of the eleven visited islets includes seven species of reptiles, whose richness seems to be related to the islet size. Stenodactylus sthenodactylus (Lichtenstein, 1823) and Malpolon insignitus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827) are new records, respectively, for the Djerba satellites and the Kneiss Archipelago, while new localities were recorded for the previously known species.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 5 (3): 391-396

    Pietro Lo Cascio & Vincent Rivière
    Herpetofaunal inventory of Kuriat and Jbel islets (Tunisia)

    ABSTRACT
    The present paper provides the results of the herpetological investigations carried out on the Kuriat Archipelago, in the Khnis Bay, and the islet of Jbel, off the harbor of Echebba. Six reptile species on the whole have been found on the studied islets. Tarentola fascicularis (Daudin, 1802), familia Phyllodactylidae, occurring on Great Kuriat, and Trachylepis vittata (Olivier, 1804), familia Scincidae, detected on all the three islets, are recorded for the first time for the islands of Tunisia.