Published January 31, 2025 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Hemiculter leucisculus

Description

Hemiculter leucisculus (Basilewsky, 1855)

Culter leucisculus Basilewsky, 1855: 238. Type locality: rivers flowing into Bay of Tschili, Beijing, China.

REFERENCES FOR TAJIKISTAN: Hemiculter leucisculus — Akhrorov (2006: 34): south of Tajikistan; Rasulov (2011: 99, 537): Amu Darya, lower Vakhsh, fish farm ponds. Hemiculter lucidus — Afanasyev et al. (2020: 365, 370): Kairakkum reservoir. Hemiculter eigenmanni — Rasulov (2011: 100, 537): Tajikistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN TAJIKISTAN: Plains rivers of the country, fish farm ponds in Amu Darya basin, possibly more widespread (localities 10, 14, 29).

SPECIMENS EXAMINED: IBIW_FS (n = 4) (Artaev et al., 2024). FMNH: 151165, 151144, 151152. In 2003–2018, specimens caught (not preserved) in the riverbed of the lower reaches of the Vakhsh River in the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve.

COMMENTS: Invasive species, accidentally introduced together with commercially important fish species from the Far East. For more information on the taxonomy of this species see Discussion.

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

Files

Files (1.4 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:b73fe29161bade987dbfc57af0c8fc51
1.4 kB Download

System files (9.9 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:32900ce9e975326bf92650f30608f509
9.9 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

References

  • Basilewsky, S. 1855. Ichthyographia Chinae borealis. Nouveaux Memoires de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou 10: 215-263.
  • Akhrorov, F. 2006. On the fauna and systematic position of native and acclimatized fish of Tajikistan. News of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan. Department of Biological and Medical Sciences: 3 (156): 30-35. [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.
  • Artaev, O., B. Levin, R. Thoni, N. Mirzoev. 2024. Fish occurrence in Tajikistan. Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters Russian Academy of Sciences. Occurrence dataset (https://doi.org/10.15468/d7h489), accessed via GBIF. org March 7, 2024.