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Awaous jayakari

Creators

  • 1. Ichthyology and Molecular Systematics Research Laboratory, Zoology Section, Department of Biology, School of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
  • 2. Conservation Monitoring Centre, The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature, Amman, Jordan

Description

31. Awaous jayakari (Boulenger, 1888) ―Longnose Goby, Arabian Freshwater Goby, Jayakar’s Goby― Native

Taxonomy. Original description: Gobius jayakari Boulenger, 1888:663, Pl. 54 (fig. 2) [from a freshwater body near Muscat, Oman; Syntypes: BMNH 1887.11.11.234-237 (4)]. Synonyms: Gobius percivali Boulenger, 1901.

Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Oman in original description by Boulenger (1888); confirmed by Freyhof et al. (2020), Al Jufaili et al. (2021), and Esmaeili et al. (2022).

General distribution. Northwestern Indian Ocean: southern Yemen and Gulf of Oman east to Iran. Possibly introduced in Pakistan. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Oman: Wadis Shab, Darsit, and several other Wadis adjacent to the coastal area of the Arabian Sea, Dhofar region, UAE, Yemen.

Economic importance. No commercial importance. Conservation. Least Concern (LC).

Remarks: Record of Awaous aeneofuscus (Peters, 1852) in Wadi Hatta watershed (UAE and Oman) is misidentification (Esmaeili et al. 2022).

Notes

Published as part of Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, pp. 201-226 in Zootaxa 5330 (2) on pages 214-215, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8249316

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Identifiers

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC87BDFFB20A2F80F4F987FD93FF12

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/8249316 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFD5FFC5FFBF0A218063FFDDFFC5FFC6 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/AA61E68D-3A1B-45BD-821F-E6AD862F6808 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03EC87BDFFB20A2F80F4F987FD93FF12 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/212430182 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/54377/taxon/03EC87BDFFB20A2F80F4F987FD93FF12.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Family
Gobiidae
Genus
Awaous
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
1887.11.11.234-237
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Boulenger
Species
jayakari
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Awaous jayakari (Boulenger, 1888) sec. Esmaeili & Hamidan, 2023

References

  • Freyhof, J., Feulner, G. R., Hamidan, N. A. & Krupp, F. (2020) Freshwater fishes Fishes of the Arabian Peninsula. Motivate Media Group, Dubia, 272 pp.
  • Esmaeili, H. R., Jufaili, S. A., Masoumi, A. H. & Zarei, F. (2022) Ichthyodiversity in southeastern Arabian Peninsula: Annotated checklist, taxonomy, short description and distribution of Inland fishes of Oman. Zootaxa, 5134 (4), 451 - 503. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5134.4.1