Volume 7 • Issue 1 • April 2014 • ISSN 1990-8237

The College of Science for Women in the University of Baghdad has published Iraq’s first illustrated guide to the Wild Mammals. Completely in Arabic, the field guide consists from 90 pages and discusses the identification and geographical distribution of 83 mammalian species found in Iraq. It includes 99 colour plates, perfectly illustrated by the principle author, to demonstrate the identification features of the species /subspecies; 66 sketches were made to feature the morphology of skulls; 46 plates feature the tracks of the listed species.

The guide represents the first checklist of wild mammals of Iraq and has been updated according to Wilson & Reeder’s Mammals Species of the World, 2nd edition (2005).

THE FIELD GUIDE TO THE WILD MAMMALS OF IRAQby: Omar F. Al-Sheikhly and Mukhtar K. Haba, 2014

In addition, it lists the IUCN Globally Threatened mammalian Species of Iraq. The guide will be freely and generously distributed by the College of Science for Women to the national and regional scientific, educational, and environmental institutes in order to aid further action towards the conservation of Iraqi Fauna.

according to Wilson & Reeder’s Mammals Species of the World, 2nd edition (2005).

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