Hemiculter leucisculus
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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.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1206/4032.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/20514623 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB2FF81FFA77B63A375FFBE0E79FF81 (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/038B87F9FFB87B7CA2D7FDD70E8CFB31 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Basilewsky
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Hemiculter
- Species
- leucisculus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hemiculter leucisculus (Basilewsky, 1855) sec. Artaev, Thoni, Mirzoev & Levin, 2025
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.