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Acipenser persicus , Borodin 1897

  • 1. Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Alborz, Iran. E-mail: jouladehroudbar @ ut. ac. ir
  • 2. Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. * Correspondence: E-mail: hamid. ghanavi @ gmail. com (Ghanavi)
  • 3. Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology Department, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, Madrid, Spain. E-mail: doadrio @ mncn. csic. es

Description

Acipenser persicus Borodin, 1897 – Native (Fig. 20)

Acipenser persicus, Borodin [N. A.] 1897: 18; Type locality: Ural River to Ural’sk, Kazakhstan; Kura River, Azerbijan; southern shore of Caspian Sea, Iran. Syntypes: (2 measured) none at ZIN.

Acipenser gueldenstadti var. colchica Marti [V. J.] 1940: 869; Type locality: Southeastern part of Black Sea near mouth of Rioni and Inguri rivers, Georgia, Eurasia. Syntypes: (many).

Common name: Pr: Qara burun or Gareburun, Darakul, Tirij, Tasmahi-ye Irani, Mahi-ye kaviar, En: Persian sturgeon.

Diagnosis: Elongated, massive and downward curved snout. The belly is white and the back grey-blue. Also, see A. gueldenstaedtii.

Meristic characters: According to Holcik (1986) D: 27–51, A: 16–35, GR: 15–36, DS: 7–19, LSC: 23– 50, VS: 7–13. According to Berg (1949) D: 30–49, A: 18–32, DS: 5–13, LSC: 21–42, VS: 7–14.

Distribution: Caspian Sea basin (Fig. 21). See Acipenser gueldenstaedtii.

Taxonomy.

Conservation: IUCN: Critically Endangered A2cde (Gesner et al. 2010b).

Notes

Published as part of Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash, Ghanavi, Hamid Reza & Doadrio, Ignacio, 2020, Ichthyofauna From Iranian Freshwater: Annotated Checklist, Diagnosis, Taxonomy, Distribution and Conservation Assessment, pp. 1-14 in Zoological Studies 59 (21) on page 16, DOI: 10.6620/ZS.2020.59-21, http://zenodo.org/record/12822787

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References

  • Holcik J. 1986. The freshwater fishes of Europe. Volume 1, Part 1: Petromyzontiformes. Aula-Verlag, 469 pp.
  • Berg LS. 1949. Israel program for scientific translations, Jerusalem Freshwater fishes of the USSR and adjacent countries, 496 pp.