Published January 31, 2025 | Version v1
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Leuciscus aspius

Description

Leuciscus aspius (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cyprinus aspius Linnaeus, 1758: 25. Type locality: Swedish lakes.

REFERENCES FOR TAJIKISTAN: Aspius aspius erythrostomus — Berg (1905: 155): Syr Darya. Aspius aspius taeniatus natio ibiloides — Berg (1912: 155): Syr Darya; Berg (1949: 609): Syr Darya, Amu Darya up to Kafirnigan; Shaposhnikova (1950: map): flat zone and lower part of foothill zone of Amu Darya basin; Rasulov and Karimov (2014: 40): Kairakkum reservoir. Aspius aspius iblioides — Nikolskiy (1938: 97): Amu Darya up to Kafirnigan mouth, Syr Darya. Leuciscus aspius — Afanasyev et al. (2020: 366): Syr Darya including Kairakkum reservoir.

DISTRIBUTION IN TAJIKISTAN: Syr Darya, flat part of Amu Darya, Kairakkum reservoir, and lower reaches of Vakhsh river.

CONSERVATION STATUS IN TAJIKISTAN: Not known; least concern (sensu IUCN; Freyhof and Kottelat, 2018).

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 22, DOI: 10.1206/4032.1, http://zenodo.org/record/20514623

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cypriniformes
Family
Cyprinidae
Genus
Leuciscus
Species
aspius
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Leuciscus aspius (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Artaev, Thoni, Mirzoev & Levin, 2025

References

  • 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]
  • Afanasyev, S. A., A. M. Roman, V. L. Dolinskii, H. N. Karimov, and I. K. Erhashboev. 2020. Impact of designed Quairokkum Hydropower Plant reconstruction on the Syr Darya River ichthyofauna. Zoodiversity 54 (5): 363-374.
  • Freyhof, J., and M. Kottelat. 2018. Leuciscus aspius (amended version of 2008 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018. Internet resource (https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T2178A136077402.en), accessed on January 19, 2024.