Published October 17, 2023 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Acipenser baerii Brandt 1869

  • 1. Department of Biology, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Nevşehir Hacı BektaşVeli University, Nevşehir, Türkiye
  • 2. School of Environmental and Animal Sciences, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
  • 3. Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
  • 4. Ichthyology and Molecular Systematics Research Laboratory, Zoology Section, Department of Biology, School of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
  • 5. Health Services Vocational School, Nevşehir Hacı BektaşVeli University, Nevşehir, Türkiye
  • 6. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany

Description

Acipenser baerii Brandt, 1869

Remarks. This species was reported by Mousavi-Sabet et al.(2019) from Tigris River. 34°33′0.39′′N, 045°46′20.02′′E) and from the Ghuretu Stream where it enters the reservoir (34°32′42.11′′N, 45°47′33.59′′E) (both about 1.5-3.5 km away from the cage-culture farm within the reservoir) in the Tigris-Euphrates basin, Kermanshah Province, western Iran, at the border of Iraq. Its presence and establishment success in Iraq should be confirmed by specimen.

Notes

Published as part of Çiçek, Erdoğan, Jawad, Laith, Eagderi, Soheil, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Mouludi-Saleh, Atta, Sungur, Sevil & Fricke, Ronald, 2023, Freshwater fishes of Iraq: a revised and updated annotated checklist- 2023, pp. 1-49 in Zootaxa 5357 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10012543

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References

  • Mousavi-Sabet, H., Salehi, M., Sarpanah, A. & Pirali Kheirabadi, E. (2019) First records of Acipenser baerii and Huso huso (Actinopterygii: Acipenseriformes: Acipenseridae) from the Tigris-Euphrates Basin, Iran. Acta Ichthyologica Et Piscatoria, 49 (3), 265 - 267. https: // doi. org / 10.3750 / AIEP / 02510