This document summarizes the key characteristics of the Ethiopian zoogeographic region. It notes that the region includes Africa south of the Sahara, Madagascar, and southern Arabia. The climate is mainly tropical, with large forests, grasslands, and mountains. The region has a diverse vertebrate fauna, including many endemic fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammal families. Some examples of unique species mentioned are lungfish, African electric fish, chameleons, ostriches, giraffes, and hippopotamuses.

1. B.ASHOK KUMAR
LECTURER IN ZOOLOGY
KRK GOVT DEGREE COLLEGE
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4. 
It includes Africa,South
Sahara,Madagaskar and Southern
Arabia.
Darlington And William George
separated Madagaskar from it due
to its distinctive fauna
Its is bounded by Palearctic
region in North and remaining
sides Sea

5. Climatic conditions:
 It is mainly tropical.
It has big Rivers
It has large blocks of big evergreen forest in
equatorial region
Mountainous region and wide grassy plants in
eastern part
Its southern part has warm temperate climate
with mixed vegetation

6. FAUNA:
The vertebrate fauna is rich,varied
and well marked with a number of
endemic genera and families
The fauna resembles the
Neotropical and Oriental regions

7. FISHES:
Fish fauna exhibit diversity including Cat
fishes,cyprinids,cyprinodonts cichlidsand
characinids
The exclusive fish families are
Archiac Birchirs
Protopterus(Lung fish)
Iso spondyli fishes
Few cat fishes
Mormirids or african electric fishes

8. Protopterus
Coelocanth

9. African electric fishes

10. AMPHIBIANS:
It is less distictive.
Represented by
caecilians,Bufonide,Ranide,Rhacophoride,
Brevicipitids
RANA and BUFO are absent
The family pipide is represented by
Xenopus(The clawed toad)-endemic to this
region
The tailed amphibians are absent

11. Xenopus-african clawed Toad

12. REPTILIA:
Crocodiles and turtles are numerous
Turtles are represented by
trionychidae,testerdinidae and pelomedusidea
Out of 50 species of Chameleons 46 are
present here only
Chameleonidae is almost exclusive
Cordylidae,spiny
lizarda,pythons,typhlops,septotyphlops and
viperids are the snakes of this region

14. BIRDS:
Very numerical having strong affinities with
oriental region birds
67 families out of which 53 are worldwide,3
are shared by oriental and 6 are exclusive
Common birds are
Hornbills,Herons,Cuckoos,Parrots,Pigeons,
swallows, Bee
catchers,Shrikes,Pinches,Bustards,Guinea
fowls etc..

15. BIRDS:
Birds shared with oriental region
are Honey guides,Bulbuls and
Prood bills
The Exclusive birds are
Ostriches,Secretory Birds,Helmet
Birds, Pitta mouse birds and
Hammer headed birds.

16. African ostriche-The Largest Bird

18. MAMMALS:
Mammalian fauna is diverse
It includes 38 familes excluding bats
12 families are exclusive like
Giraffes,Hippopotamus,Aardvarks,
3 families of insectivores like ShrewsGolden
moles Aye aye and elephant shews.
 6 families of Rodents like Anomaluridae,
African flying squrrel,pedetidae,African jumping
Hare,Cave rats and rock rats

19. MAMMALS:
In addition different sps.. Of Zebras, antelopes
are unique.
Rhinoceros,Horses and pangolins are alomost
exclusive
The other sps.. That are shared with other
regions are Hedge
hogs,porcupines,civents,Hyenas and pigs
Dormice,jerboas,donkey and wild horses are
shared with Palearctic region

20. MAMMALS:
Oriental mammals seen here are
Loris,old world monkeys(lemurs),
Apes(Chimpanzee abd Gorilla),
Pangolins,Bamboorats,elephants,lox
odonta, Rhinoceros and chevrotins.