Capoeta damascina
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
Capoeta damascina (Valenciennes, 1842) [N]—Mesopotamian barb
Taxonomy. Original description: Gobio damascinus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1842: 314, Pl. 482 [Damascus, Syria; lectotype: MNHN 0000-4494. Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1948: 43].— Iraq synonyms: Scaphiodon fratercula Heckel, 1843; Scaphiodon socialis Heckel, 1843; Scaphiodon peregrinorum Heckel, 1843; Capoeta syriaca (Valenciennes, 1844); Capoeta kosswigi Karaman, 1969.—Revisions: Alwan et al. (2016: 17).—Illustration: Krupp & Schneider (1989: 366. fig. 17).
Status in Iraq. First record from Iraq by Coad (2010); confirmed by Agha et al. (2023).—Iraq materials: None.
Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: Euphrates River drainage.—General distribution: Asia Minor and Middle East: Levant, Mesopotamia, and southeastern Anatolia (Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Israel, and Jordan).— Habitat: This species inhabits a wide range of all kinds of permanent waterbodies at least seasonally with gravel or running water. Freshwater.
Economic importance. Locally commercially important.
Conservation. Conservation Status in Iraq: Unknown.—IUCN: LC (IUCN 2023).—Threats: ABS, CLI, CON, EUT, HAB.—Low sensitivity to human activities.—Not considered a keystone species.—Decline status: Decreasing.—Low priority for conservation action.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Capoeta
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Valenciennes
- Species
- damascina
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Capoeta damascina (Valenciennes, 1842) sec. Çiçek, Jawad, Eagderi, Esmaeili, Mouludi-Saleh, Sungur & Fricke, 2023
References
- Cuvier, G. & Valenciennes, A. (1842) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome Seizieme. Livre dix-huitieme. Les Cyprinoides. Chez P. Bertrand, Paris, xx + 472 pp., pls. 456 - 487.
- Heckel, J. J. (1843) Ichthyologie [von Syrien]. In: von Russegger, J., Reisen in Europa, Asien und Afrika, mit besonderer Rucksicht auf die naturwissenschaftlichen Verhaltnisse der betreffenden Lander unternommen in den Jahren 1835 bis 1841, etc. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung. Stuttgart. Ichthyologie [von Syrien], 1 (pt 2), 991 - 1099.
- Coad, B. W. (2010) Freshwater fishes of Iraq. Pensoft Publication, Sofia, 274 pp., 16 pls.
- Agha, G. F., Bilal, S. J. & Abdullah, S. M. A. (2023) DNA barcoding of some species of the genus Capoeta Valenciennes, 1842 from Kurdistan Region, Iraq. ZANCO Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences, 35 (1), 136 - 142. https: // doi. org / 10.21271 / ZJPAS. 35.1.14