Published October 17, 2023 | Version v1
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Carassius gibelio

  • 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).

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 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10012543

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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.