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Capoeta heratensis

  • 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

Capoeta heratensis (Keyserling, 1861) – Native

(Fig. 79)

Scaphiodon heratensis Keyserling [E. von] 1861: 11 [15]; Type locality: Heri-rud at Herat, Afghanistan. No types saved.

Common name: Pr: Siyah mahi Harat, En: Herat scarper.

Diagnosis: Two set of barbels easiest way to identified this species from other species of this genus in Iran.

Meristic characters: D: III–IV 7–8 (7), A: III 5, P: 16–18 (18), V: 8, GR: 16–20, LL: 46–54, TV: 40–43 (41).

Distribution: Hari basin (Fig. 80). Maybe translocated to Caspian Sea basin by people. Found in Harirud, Kalat, Zanglu and Kashaf Rivers.

Taxonomy: Berg (1949) synonymised this species with Varicorhinus capoeta (Güldenstädt 1773), but consider it a valid subspecies, Coad (1991) placed heratensis in Capoeta capoeta (Güldenstädt 1773) as a subspecies, Levin et al. (2012) give it a full species rank.

Conservation: IUCN: Not Evaluated, PC: Least Concern. Even if this species is widespread in its distribution range, the recent years droughts in the Harirud basin has destroyed many of its habitats. It occurs in more than 10 independent populations and is not thought to have declined (or will decline) fast enough to qualify for NT or any other threat category. Therefore, we classified it as Least Concern.

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 pages 48-49, DOI: 10.6620/ZS.2020.59-21, http://zenodo.org/record/12822787

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References

  • Berg LS. 1949. Israel program for scientific translations, Jerusalem Freshwater fishes of the USSR and adjacent countries, 496 pp.
  • Coad BW. 1991. Fishes of the Tigris-Euphrates basin: A Critical Checklist. Syllogeus, Ottawa 68: 1 - 49.
  • Levin BA, Freyhof J, Lajbner Z, Perea S, Abdoli A, Gaffaroglu M, Ozulug M, Rubenyan HR, Salnikov VB, Doadrio I, Ozulug M, Rubenyan HR, Salnikov VB, Doadrio I. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships of the algae scraping cyprinid genus Capoeta (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 62: 542 - 549. doi: 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2011.09.004.