Arabibarbus arabicus
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Description
Arabibarbus arabicus
Common name. Arabian Shabout.
Diagnosis. Distinguished from species of Carasobarbus in Arabian Peninsula by: ● 5½ branched anal rays / ● 8½ branched dorsal rays. Distinguished from Arabibarbus hadhrami by: ○ 29–36, usually 32–35 total lateral-line scales (mode 33) / ○ head depth 14–17 % SL / ○ pectoral length 18–22 % SL / ○ pelvic length 15–19 % SL / ○ head length 24–31 % SL. Size up to 351 mm SL.
Distribution. Southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden basins from southern Saudi Arabia to Yemen.
Habitat. Wadis with sections of deep pools.
Biology. No data.
Conservation status. LC; fishing might be a threat. Actual situation unknown.
Further reading. Trewavas 1941 (description); Banister & Clarke 1977 (distribution); Krupp 1983 (distribution); Borkenhagen 2014 (review).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Arabibarbus
- Species
- arabicus
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Trewavas, E., 1941. XVII. - Nyasa fishes of the genus Tilapia and a new species from Portuguese East Africa. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7: 294-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/03745481.1941.9727933
- Banister, K. E. & M. A. Clarke. 1977. The freshwater fishes of the Arabian Peninsula. Pp 111 - 154. in: M. Rice. (Ed.) The scientific results of the Oman flora and fauna survey 1975. Journal Oman Studies (Special Report).
- Krupp, F. 1983. Fishes of Saudi Arabia. Freshwater fishes of Saudi Arabia and adjacent regions of the Arabian Peninsula. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 5: 568-636.
- Borkenhagen, K. 2014. A new genus and species of cyprinid fish (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae) from the Arabian Peninsula, and its phylogenetic and zoogeographic affinities. Environmental Biology of Fishes 97: 1179-1195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-014-0315-y