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Luciobarbus brachycephalus

Description

Luciobarbus brachycephalus (Kessler, 1872)

Barbus brachycephalus Kessler, 1872: 52. Type locality: Syr Darya River, central Asia.

REFERENCES FOR TAJIKISTAN: Barbus brachycephalus — Berg (1905: 65): Syr Darya; Nikolskiy (1938: 112): Syr Darya and Amu Darya; Berg (1949: 705): Amu Darya up to Somoni (Faizabadkala); Shaposhnikova (1950: map): flat zone and lower part of foothill zone of Amu Darya basin; Rasulov and Karimov (2014: 39): Kairakkum reservoir.

DISTRIBUTION IN TAJIKISTAN: Syr Darya including Kairakkum reservoir, Amu Darya with lower reaches of Vakhsh, possibly in Kafirnigan, and Kyzylsu Rivers.

CONSERVATION STATUS IN TAJIKISTAN: Vulnerable (Saidov, 2017); vulnerable (sensu IUCN; Freyhof and Kottelat, 2008b).

SPECIMENS EXAMINED: In 2003–2018, specimens were caught (not preserved) in the floodplain lakes and the riverbed of the lower reaches of the Vakhsh River in the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve.

Notes

Published as part of Artaev, Oleg, Thoni, Ryan, Mirzoev, Nuriddin & Levin, Boris, 2025, Ichthyofauna of Tajikistan: Diversity and Changes over the Past Century, pp. 1-56 in American Museum Novitates 2025 (4032) on page 13, DOI: 10.1206/4032.1, http://zenodo.org/record/20514623

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References

  • Kessler, K. F. 1872. Ichthyological fauna of Turkestan. Izvestiia Imperatorskago Obschchestva Liubitelei Estestvozaniia, Antropologii i Etnografii 10 (1): 47-76. [in Russian]
  • Berg, L. S. 1905. Die Fische von Turkestan. Saint Petersburg: print. of Isidor Goldberg. [in Russian]
  • Berg, L. S. 1949. Freshwater fish of the USSR and neighboring countries (3 vols). Moscow-Leningrad: Izdatelstvo Akademii nauk SSSR. [in Russian]
  • Freyhof, J., and M. Kottelat. 2008 b. Luciobarbus brachycephalus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008. Internet resource (https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135684A4180293.en), accessed January 19, 2024.