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Clupeonella caspia Svetovidov 1941

  • 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

Clupeonella caspia Svetovidov, 1941 – Native (Fig. 39)

Clupeonella delicatula caspia Svetovidov [A. N.] 1941: 808; Type locality: Volga Delta, Russia, Caspian Sea. Lectotype: ZIN 15883 (152 mm, jar not found in 1996). Paralectotypes: ZIN 15883 (5 juv.).

Common name: Pr: Rizeh kuli, kilka-e-maamooli, En: Common shad Caspian sprat, Black Sea Sprat.

Diagnosis: A moderately deep body, depth of caudal peduncle, a short and wide head, a sharply keeled belly, and pointed pectoral fin tips.

Meristic characters: D: III–IV (III) 11–14, A: I– III (III) 14–19, GR: 51–62, LL: 42–55, TV: 40–44.

Distribution: Caspian Sea basin (Fig. 40). More common in the central and parts Southern of Caspian Sea.

Taxonomy: Kozlovsky in Hoestlandt (1991) classified as a subspecies of Clupeonella cultriventris also Bogutskaya and Naseka (2004) also considered it a synonym of Clupeonella cultriventris, but Kottelat and Freyhof (2007) consider this subspecies to be a distinct species found in the Caspian Sea with cultriventris restricted to the Black Sea, and they give Clupeonella caspia full species rank.

Conservation: IUCN: Least Concern (Freyhof and Kottelat 2008m).

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 27, DOI: 10.6620/ZS.2020.59-21, http://zenodo.org/record/12822787

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References

  • Hoestlandt H. 1991. The freshwater fishes of Europe, Clupeidae, Anguillidae. Wiesbaden: AULA.
  • Bogutskaya NG, Naseka AM. 2004. Catalogue of agnathans and fishes of fresh and brackish waters of Russia with comments on nomenclature and taxonomy. Russ Acad Sci, Moscow. (in Russian)
  • Kottelat M, Freyhof J. 2007. Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Copeia 3: 725 - 727. doi: 10.1643 / OT- 08 - 098 a. 1.
  • Freyhof J, Kottelat M. 2008 m. Clupeonella caspia. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e. T 135707 A 4187585.