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Luciobarbus barbulus

  • 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

Luciobarbus barbulus (Heckel, 1847) – Native (Fig. 139)

Barbus barbulus Heckel [J. J.] 1847: 256; Type locality: Kara Agatsch River, Iran; Kueik River at Aleppo, Syria. Syntypes: NMW 6596 (1).

Common name: Pr: Berzom, Charsol, Sas mahi lab pahn, En: Persis barbel, Qarah Aqaj barbel.

Diagnosis: Two pairs of barbels, last unbranched dorsal fin spine serrated and very strong, usually 8 dorsal fin rays (never 10), fleshy and well-developed lips, and 47 or more lateral line scales.

Meristic characters: D: IV 8–9 (8), A: III 5, P: 17–19, V: 8–9 (8), GR: 15–24, LL: 47–59, TV: 44.

Distribution: Tigris and Persis basins (Fig. 140). Found in Karun, Mond, Sirvan, Jarahi, Zohre, Rudbal, Fahlian, Dez, Qarah Aqaj, Shapor, Jarrahi, Zohre, Zemkan, Dalaki and Gamasiab rivers.

Taxonomy: Coad (1996) placed in Barbus but Esmaeili et al. (2010) transferred to Luciobarbus.

Conservation: IUCN: Not Evaluated, PC: Least Concern. This species has a relatively large distribution range and there is no known widespread threat affecting it. 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 page 80, DOI: 10.6620/ZS.2020.59-21, http://zenodo.org/record/12822787

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References

  • Coad BW. 1996. Fishes from the qanats of Iran. Publicaciones Especiales Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia 21: 63 - 79.
  • Esmaeili HR, Coad BW, Gholamifard A, Teimory A. 2010. Annotated сhecklist of the freshwater fishes of Iran. Zoosyst Rossica 19: 361 - 386.