Carassius gibelio
Authors/Creators
- 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
Carassius gibelio (Bloch, 1782) [I]—Gibel carp
Taxonomy. Original description: Cyprinus gibelio Bloch, 1782: 71, Pl. 12 [Olsche River pond, Odra River system, near Czech Teschen, 49°47’11”N, 18°35’24”E, Czech Republic; neotype: ZMB 33979].— Iraq synonyms: None.—Revisions: None.—Illustration: Jawad et al. (2012).
Status in Iraq. First record from Iraq by Jawad et al. (2012); confirmed by Al-Faisal et al. (2014).—Iraq materials: None.
Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: Tigris and Euphrates River basins.—General distribution: Eurasia: Eastern Europe, Russia to northeastern China; introduced elsewhere.—Habitat: This species inhabits rivers, lakes, reservoirs, ponds, and ditches with stagnant or slow-flowing water. It occurs in eutrophic fresh and brackish waters, well-vegetated ponds, and canals. Freshwater, brackish.
Economic importance. Commercially important.
Reasons of introduction. Unknown: Inadvertently introduced by transboundary waterways for no known reason or method.
Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Bloch
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Carassius
- Species
- gibelio
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Carassius gibelio (Bloch, 1782) sec. Çiçek, Jawad, Eagderi, Esmaeili, Mouludi-Saleh, Sungur & Fricke, 2023
References
- Bloch, M. E. (1782) D. Marcus Elieser Bloch's, ausubenden Arztes zu Berlin. Oeconomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands. Erster Theil. Auf Kosten des Verfassers und in Commission bei dem Buchhandler Hr. Hesse, Berlin, 128 pp., pls. 1 - 37. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 63303
- Jawad, L. A., Al-Faisal, A. & Al-Mukhtar, M. (2012) Presence of the non - indigenous fish species, Gibel carp, Carassius gibelio (Family: Cyprinidae) in Basrah Province freshwater systems, Iraq. Water Research and Management, 2 (4), 41 - 44.