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Hanyeh Ghaffari

Hanyeh Ghaffari

Academic rank: Assistant Professor
ORCID:
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 25959083200
Faculty: Faculty of Natural Resources
Address: Department of Environment, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Kurdistan, Sananndaj, Iran. P.O.Box: 416.
Phone: 0098-087-33620551

Research

Title
Eastern Montpellier Snake (Malpolon insignitus fuscus) Ophiophagy Behavior from Zagros Mountains
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Malpolon insignitus; Serpentes; Lamprophiidae; Kurdistan; Iran; Iraq; diet.
Year
2017
Journal Russian Journal of Herpetology
DOI
Researchers Barbod Safaei Mahroo ، Hanyeh Ghaffari ، Saeed Salmabadi ، Arman kamangar ، Shirvan Almasi ، Seyed Mahdi KAZEMI ، Aram Ghafoor

Abstract

Herein, we present three cases of wild Malpolon insignitus preying on Platyceps najadum, Eirenis punctatolineatus, and Natrix tessellata from Iran, in addition one observation from Kurdistan of Iraq. Furthermore, we report two new records of M. insignitus from northwestern Iran.