dammūsa

lizard

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occurrence in Arabian Desert

  • Arabian Desert
    In Arabian Desert: Animal life

    …pretty, a salmon-coloured lizard, the dammūsa seeks the black beetle for food and literally dives and swims in the slipfaces of the sand dunes. An agamid lizard (ṭuḥayḥī) scurries across the sand with its tail coiled like a watch spring, uncoiling when it stops.

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