Book Fauna Palaestina 4 Year 2014 By Prof Dr Norman Ali Bassam Khalaf von Jaffa ISBN 978-9950-383-77-7

aquatic networks, such as the Orontes, at a time when these systems
were linked. From there they spread to the Litani-Jordan river system
when these were connected, which explains how fish from Asia Minor
and the Levant penetrated into Palestine. Aquatic systems in the
western Arabian Peninsula were once much more plentiful than today
and were inter-connected during certain periods. These links reached
as far as the southern Dead Sea and were used as a passage route by
fish (Goren, 1975).
The newly discovered Palestine Doctor Fish subspecies Garra rufa wadiqana
Khalaf, 2013 at Ain Al Basa Spring, Wadi Qana Nature Reserve, Salfit
Governorate, State of Palestine. Photo by: Ola Mostafa Khalaf. 08.07.2013.
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