Âouinet Bel Egrâ is a village in the commune of Tindouf, in Tindouf Province, Algeria. It is in the Sahara Desert approximately 160 kilometres south-east of Tindouf. There is a Saharawi Refugee camp here named Dakhla.
Camille Arambourg was a French vertebrate paleontologist. He conducted extensive field work in North Africa. In the 1950s he argued against the prevailing model of Neanderthals as brutish and simian.
Asteriscus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
René Charles Joseph Ernest Maire was a French botanist and mycologist. His major work was the Flore de l'Afrique du Nord in 16 volumes published posthumously in 1953. He collected plants from Algeria, Morocco, France, and Mali for the herbarium of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium.
Otala lactea, known as the milk snail or Spanish snail, is a large, edible species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk, in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.
Ighermia was a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. It had only one species, Ighermia pinifolia(Maire & Wilczek) It was first published in Nordic J. Bot. Vol.3 on page 445 in 1983.
Dasypyrum is a genus of Eurasian and North African plants in the grass family, native to the basins of the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas.
Tricholosporum tetragonosporum is a species of fungus in the family Tricholomataceae. Found in Morocco, the species was first described as Tricholoma tetragonosporum by René Maire in 1945, and transferred into Tricholosporum in 2000.
Narcissus romieuxii is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae. It is a distinctive, early-flowering daffodil with dark green rush-like foliage. The flowers have narrow perianth segments, while the trumpet is wide and flaring. It blooms in mid to late winter. There are many subspecies and cultivars, with flowers in many shades of white and yellow. It originated in the Atlas Mountains region of Morocco.
Allium subvillosum, the Spring Garlic, is a European and North African species of wild onion native to southern Iberia, the Balearic Islands, Sicily, northern Africa and the Azores where it might be introduced.
Allium antiatlanticum is a plant species native to Morocco and Algeria. It is a bulb-forming perennial with a scent resembling that of garlic or leeks. It has a bulb, and is pollinated by bees and other insects.
Hannonia is a genus of plants in the Amaryllis family. It contains only one known species, Hannonia hesperidum, endemic to Morocco and confined to Western Morocco, Promontory of Hercules. The specific name comes from Greek έσπερος, of evening, as the flowers open in the late afternoon.
Allium litardierei is a North African species of wild onion native to Algeria and Morocco.
Monique Keraudren-Aymonin was a French botanist.
Corethromyces elegans is a species of fungi in the family Laboulbeniaceae. A specimen at the University of Illinois Herbarium was found on Rhexius inculptus Lec. in La Salle County, Illinois, United States.
Foleyola is a monotypic genus belonging to the Brassicaceae family. Its only species is Foleyola billotii native to North Africa in Algeria, Mauritania and Morocco.
André Aubréville was a French botanist, professor at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and a member of the Academy of Sciences. He was the first scientist to introduce the term "desertification" (in his 1949 book: Climats, forêts et désertification de l'Afrique tropicale, and wrote a number of floras of former French colonies.
Potomida littoralis is a species of bivalve belonging to the family Unionidae.
Aphrosylus aguellinus is a species of fly in the family Dolichopodidae.
Aphrosylus maroccanus is a species of fly in the family Dolichopodidae.
