herpetologist Rolf Leptien. U. aegyptia is locally known as dhab or ḍabb (Arabic: ضب). Its strong skin made good leather for the bedouins, while its meat was often...

and possibly as old as 60. U. dispar maliensis, known as "ḍabb" (Arabic: ضَـبْ) by peninsular Arabs, is historically consumed as food by some of the Bedouin...