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Alburnoides petrubanarescui Bogutskaya & Coad 2009

Description

Alburnoides petrubanarescui

Common name. Urmia spirlin.

Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Alburnoides in Iranian endorheic basins by: ○ 8−11½, usually 9−10½ branched anal rays / ○ usually 7½, rarely 8½ branched dorsal rays / ○ horizontal eye diameter smaller than interorbital distance / ○ mouth subterminal, tip of mouth cleft situated at a horizontal line with lower margin of eye / ○ ventral keel completely covered by scales / ○ snout stout, markedly rounded / ○ 42−49+2−3, usually 43−48+2−3, lateral-line scales / ○ 6−8 gill rakers. Size up to 109 mm SL.

Distribution. Iran and Türkiye: Simineh, Zarrineh, Mahabad, Nazlu, Talkheh, and Shahr in Lake Urmia basin.

Habitat. Fast-flowing streams with gravel and sand substrate.

Biology. No data.

Conservation status. EN; seems to be declining within its very small range. Has disappeared from all tributaries in Iran except Nazlu.

Further reading. Bogutskaya & Coad 2009 (description); Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2015c (review); Kaya 2020b (records from Türkiye).

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 pages 297-298, 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.
  • Kaya, C. 2020 b. New record of three freshwater fish species from a western drainage of Lake Urmia for the Turkish fauna. Ege Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 37: 325-328. https://doi.org/10.12714/egejfas.37.4.01