Paracobitis zabgawraensis Freyhof, Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh & Geiger 2014
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Description
Paracobitis zabgawraensis
Common name. Greater Zab crested loach.
Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Paracobitis by: ● body almost plain brown with narrow reticulate yellowish pattern / ○ pelvic origin below or very slightly in front of dorsal origin / ○ caudal slightly emarginate / ○ no or a very small pelvic axillary lobe / ○ flank behind dorsal origin covered with small, deeply embedded scales / ○ posterior narial opening roundish. / ○ predorsal length 49–56 % SL / ○ prepelvic length 50–53 % SL / ○ outer rostral barbel 16–24 % HL / ○ maxillary barbel 19–27 % HL. Size up to 77 mm SL.
Distribution. Türkiye: Upper Yanarsu, Botan, and Nerduş drainages; Greater Zab drainage in Türkiye and Iraq.
Habitat. Streams with coarse gravel and moderate to fast-flowing water.
Biology. No data.
Conservation status. LC.
Further reading. Freyhof et al. 2014b (description); Kaya et al. 2020c (distribution).
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Freyhof, Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh & Geiger
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Nemacheilidae
- Genus
- Paracobitis
- Species
- zabgawraensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paracobitis zabgawraensis Freyhof, 2014 sec. Freyhof, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Jouladeh-Roudbar & Kaya, 2025
References
- Freyhof, J., H. R. Esmaeili, G. Sayyadzadeh & M. Geiger. 2014 b. Review of the crested loaches of the genus Paracobitis from Iran and Iraq with the description of four new species (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 25: 11-38.
- Kaya, C., D. Turan, G. Kalayci, E. Baycelebi & J. Freyhof. 2020 c. The westernmost known population of Paracobitis (Teleostei, Nemacheilidae), with the description of a new species from the Euphrates River in southern Anatolia. Zootaxa 4838: 525-534. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4838.4.6