Ecologica Montenegrina, 65, 2023, 40-46 Small mammals from Farasan Archipelago, Saudi Arabia AHMED AL OBAID 1 , ALI AL AHMARY 2 , FAISAL SHURAIM 3 , FARAH NEYAZ 4 , AHMAD AL BOUG 5 , ZAFFAR R. MIR 6 & ZUHAIR S. AMR 7 * 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 National Center for Wildlife (NCW), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 1 https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7183-1213, 2 https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2998-0152 3 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3253-4528, 4 https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2712-6946 5 https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0227-3373, 6 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3550-6250 7 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4778-2308 *Corresponding author. E-mail: amrz@just.edu.jo Received 15 August 2023 │ Accepted by V. Pešić: 22 August 2023 │ Published online 26 August 2023. Abstract Four bats and three rodents species were reported from Farasan Island. Triaenops persicus Dobson, 1871 is reported for the first time from Saudi Arabia based on echolocation calls. The presence of Pipistrellus kuhlii (Kuhl, 1817), Asellia patrizii De Beaux, 1931, Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758), and Gerbillus nanus Blanford, 1875 are confirmed. Key words: Farasan, bats, rodents, range expansion, new records. Introduction The Farasan Archipelago consists of over 207 islands and islets, with six main islands: Farasan Al-Kebir, As Saqid, Qummah, Zifaf, Ad Dosan and Sasu. The first two are the largest with 381 km 2 and 150 km 2 respectively (Fig. 1). This archipelago was formed by fossilized coral reefs during the Miocene (Fernandes et al., 2006) and was repeatedly connected with the main land mass on the western side of the Red Sea near Jizan (Bailey et al., 2007). The islands are declared as a protected area, hosting the elegant Farasani Gazelle, Gazella arabica farasani (Soares & Wronski, 2021). The small mammals of Farasan were studied over the past 30 years (Jennings, 1988; Moeschler et al., 1990; Masseti, 2010; Masseti et al., 2015; Soares & Wronski, 2021). They reported one rodent species, Acomys dimidiatus (Cretzschmar, 1826), and three bat species; Pipistrellus sp., Asellia patrizii De Beaux, 1931 and Rhinopoma cystops Thomas, 1903. In this communication, we report on additional records of small mammals from Farasan Archipelago and new record of one bat species. Ecologica Montenegrina 65: 40-46 (2023) This journal is available online at: www.biotaxa.org/em https://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2023.65.5