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The wildlife of Saudi Arabia is substantial and varied. Saudi Arabia is a very large country forming the biggest part of the Arabian Peninsula. It has several geographic regions, each with a diversity of plants and animals adapted to their own particular habitats. The country has several extensive mountain ranges, deserts, highlands, steppes ...
The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Suborder: Mysticeti. Family: Balaenopteridae.
Category. : Fauna of Saudi Arabia. For articles about fauna whose distribution includes, but is not limited to, Saudi Arabia see Category:Fauna of the Arabian Peninsula.
Order: Columbiformes Family: Columbidae. Pigeons and doves are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills with a fleshy cere. Rock pigeon, Columba livia. Stock dove, Columba oenas. Common wood-pigeon, Columba palumbus (A) Rameron pigeon, Columba arquatrix. European turtle-dove, Streptopelia turtur.
Arabian Desert. The Arabian Desert (Arabic: ٱلصَّحْرَاء ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة) is a vast desert wilderness in West Asia that occupies almost the entire Arabian Peninsula with an area of 2,330,000 square kilometers (900,000 sq mi). [3] It stretches from Yemen to the Persian Gulf and Oman to Jordan and Iraq.
Pages in category "Lists of fauna of Saudi Arabia". The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
P. asirensis. Binomial name. Pica asirensis. Bates, 1936. The Asir magpie ( Pica asirensis ), also known as the Arabian magpie, is a highly endangered species of magpie endemic to Saudi Arabia. It is only found in the country's southwestern highlands, in the Asir Region. It occurs only in African juniper forest in well-vegetated wadis and valleys.
The hamadryas baboon's range extends from the Red Sea in Eritrea to Ethiopia, [5] Djibouti and Somalia. It is also native to the Sarawat Mountains of southwestern Arabia, in both Yemen and Saudi Arabia. It is locally extinct in Egypt. [2][10] The hamadryas baboon lives in arid areas, savannas, and rocky areas, requiring cliffs for sleeping and ...