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Invasive species are a significant threat to native species of the United Arab Emirates, bringing about environmental and agricultural damage.Although the country is considered to be extremely arid and hard for foreign species to settle in, as of 2019, 242 invasive species had been found within the country.
The United Arab Emirates occupy a corner of Arabia bounded by Saudi Arabia to the west and south, Oman to the east, the Gulf of Oman and Oman to the northeast and the Persian Gulf to the north. The northern coast stretches for about 650 km (400 mi) along the southern shore of the Persian Gulf and largely consists of salt pans that extend inland.
"Alien species recorded in the United Arab Emirates: an initial list of terrestrial and freshwater species". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 7 (12): 7910– 7921. doi: 10.11609/JoTT.o4352.7910-21. "A total of 146 alien species were recorded in seven major taxonomic groups as shown in Table 1. The highest number of alien species were birds recorded ...
The golden trevally has long been used as a food fish by humans, with archeological sites in the United Arab Emirates yielding the remains of this species dating back to prehistory. [29] The species is still fished for using many traditional methods in the Pacific Islands, where it is netted and speared when it moves to shallower waters. [30]
Garra barreimiae, the Oman garra, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in the mountains of northern Oman and in the United Arab Emirates . Most populations inhabit wadis , streams, pools and springs, but one population which lives in a cave system , is known as Omani blind cave fish , and has lost its sight and ...
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
Cavefish or cave fish is a generic term for fresh and brackish water fish adapted to life in caves and other underground habitats. Related terms are subterranean fish, troglomorphic fish, troglobitic fish, stygobitic fish, phreatic fish, and hypogean fish.
The name "hamour" or "hammour" (Arabic: هَامُّوْر, romanized: hāmmūr) [1] is used to describe a number of fish, mainly the goldspotted rockcod (Epinephelus coioides) and brown spotted reef cod (Epinephelus chlorostigma). At the same time, it is the name given to a variety of closely related fish species in the Persian Gulf.