Carasobarbus canis
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Carasobarbus canis
Common name. Jordan himri.
Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Carasobarbus in Persian Gulf and Mediterranean basins by: ● head grey and caudal peduncle and caudal yellow in adults larger than 100 mm SL / ○ usually 12 circumpeduncular scales / ○ lower lip without median lobe / ○ last unbranched dorsal ray usually markedly shorter than head / ○ usually 7−9 gill rakers / ○ head length 24−29 % SL / ○ two pairs of barbels / ○ 29−35 total scales along lateral line. Size up to 550 mm SL.
Distribution. Jordan drainage. Introduced to Azraq Oasis in Jordan and coastal rivers Na‘aman and Yarqon in Israel, now all extirpated.
Habitat. A wide range of rivers,lakes,and marshes.Spawns along banks, usually on hard bottoms.
Biology. Spawns December−January (Lake Tiberias). Eggs adhere to substrate. Diet consists of fish, invertebrates, algae, and detritus. Relative proportion of fish in diet increases with body length. Mirogrex are their main prey in Lake Tiberias.
Conservation status. LC.
Remarks. Records from Euphrates drainage are based on misidentifications.
Further reading. Ben-Tuvia 1978 (biology); Spataru& Gophen (1985b) (feeding); Fishelson et al. 1996 (reproduction); Tsigenopoulos et al. 2010 (phylogeny); Borkenhagen et al. 2011 (phylogeny); Borkenhagen &Krupp 2013 (description,distribution).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Valenciennes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Carasobarbus
- Species
- canis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Carasobarbus canis (Valenciennes, 1842) sec. Freyhof, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Jouladeh-Roudbar & Kaya, 2025
References
- Ben-Tuvia, A. 1978. Fishes. Pp 407-430 in: C. Serruya. (Ed.). Lake Kinneret, Monographiae Biologicae, 32. Junk Publisher, The Hague. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9954-1
- Spataru, P. & M. Gophen. 1985 b. Food composition of the barbel Tor canis (Cyprinidae) and its role in the Lake Kinneret ecosystem. Environmental biology of fishes 14: 295-301. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00002634
- Fishelson, L., M. Goren, J. van Vuren & R. Manelis. 1996. Some aspects of the reproductive biology of Barbus spp., Capoeta damascina and their hybrids (Cyprinidae, Teleostei) in Israel. Hydrobiologia 317: 79-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00013728
- Tsigenopoulos, C. S., P. Kasapidis & P. Berrebi. 2010. Phylogenetic relationships of hexaploid large-sized barbs (genus Labeobarbus, Cyprinidae) based on mtDNA data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56: 851-856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2010.02.006
- Borkenhagen, K., H. R. Esmaeili, S. Mohsenzadeh, F. Shahryari & A. Gholamifard. 2011. The molecular systematics of the Carasobarbus species from Iran and adjacent areas, with comments on Carasobarbus albus (Heckel, 1843). Environmental Biology of Fishes 91: 327-335. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-011-9787-1
- Borkenhagen, K. & F. Krupp. 2013. Taxonomic revision of the genus Carasobarbus Karaman, 1971 (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae). ZooKeys 339: 1-53. http://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.339.4903