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Alburnoides namaki Bogutskaya & Coad 2009

Description

Alburnoides namaki

Common name. Namak spirlin.

Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Alburnoides in Iranian endorheic basins by: ○ horizontal eye diameter smaller than interorbital distance / ○ 8½, rarely 7½, branched dorsal rays / ○ 10−14½, usually 11−13½, branched anal rays / ○ snout rounded / ○ tip of mouth cleft situated at a horizontal line with lower margin of eye or below / ○ mouth subterminal, upper lip projecting lower lip / ○ 42−52+2−3 lateral-line scales / ○ 5–10 gill rakers. Size up to 110 mm SL.

Distribution. Iran: Lake Namak basin and Nam in Hable drainage in Western Kavir basin.

Habitat. Streams, springs, and qanats with moderate to fast-flowing water and gravel and silt substrate.

Biology. No data.

Conservation status. LC.

Remarks. Alburnoides coadi is a synonym. Alburnoides idignensis, A. namaki, and A. nicolausi are closely related, and future studies may not support them as independent species.

Further reading. Bogutskaya & Coad 2009 (description); Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2015c (review, description of A. coadi); Eagderi et al. 2019a (phylogeny).

Notes

Published as part of Freyhof, Jörg, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash & Kaya, Cüneyt, 2025, Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia, GmbH, Berlin / Boston :De Gruyter on page 296, DOI: 10.1515/9783111677811, http://zenodo.org/record/17881367

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References

  • Bogutskaya, N. G. & B. W. Coad. 2009. A review of vertebral and fin-ray counts in the genus Alburnoides (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) with a description of six new species. Zoosystematica Rossica 18: 126-173. https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2009.18.1.126
  • Mousavi-Sabet, H., S. Vatandoust & I. Doadrio. 2015 c. Review of the genus Alburnoides Jeitteles, 1861 (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae) from Iran with description of three new species from the Caspian Sea and Kavir basins. Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences 13: 293-331.
  • Eagderi, S., A. Jouladeh-Roudbar, J. Imani Harsini & M. Rostami. 2019 a. Phylogeny of the members of the genus Alburnoides in Iran using COI gene. Iranian Scientific Fisheries Journal 28: 125-137. [in Farsi]. https://doi.org/10.22092/ISFJ.2019.119160