Paracobitis ghazniensis
Description
Paracobitis ghazniensis (Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1966)
[E]— Ghazni loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Noemacheilus ghazniensis Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1966: 162 [Ghazni River at Ghazni (33°33’N, 68°26’E), tributary of Ab-i-Istadah Lake, Helmand drainage, Afghanistan; holotype: BMNH 1944.4.1.1].— Afghanistan synonyms: Noemacheilus ghaznienesis Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1966; Nemacheilus ghazniensis Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1966.—Revisions: Prokofiev (2009: 888).—Illustration: Bănărescu & Nalbant (1966: fig. 7; pl. 20, figs. 4–5).
Status in Afghanistan. Recorded from Afghanistan in original description by Bănărescu & Nalbant (1966) as Noemacheilus ghazniensis); confirmed by Coad (1981: 14 as Noemacheilus (Paracobitis) ghaznienesis; 2014: 253; 2015: 228).—Afghanistan materials: BMNH.
Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Ghazni River.—General distribution: Northern-central Asia: Afghanistan endemic.—Habitat: This species occurs in streams with moderately to fast-flowing freshwater in both mountainous and lowlands. Freshwater.
Economic importance. No commercial importance.
Conservation. Conservation status in Afghanistan: Unknown.—IUCN: NE (2023).—Threats: Unknown.—High sensitivity to human activities.—Keystone species.—Decline status: Unknown.—High priority for conservation action.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Banarescu & Nalbant
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Nemacheilidae
- Genus
- Paracobitis
- Species
- ghazniensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paracobitis ghazniensis (Banarescu, 1966) sec. Çiçek, Fricke, Eagderi, Sungur, Coad & Hamdard, 2023
References
- Banarescu, P. M. & Nalbant, T. T. (1966) The 3 rd Danish Expedition to central Asia. Zoological results 34. Cobitidae (Pisces) from Afghanistan and Iran. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, KjObenhavn, 129, 149 - 186.
- Prokofiev, A. M. (2009) Problems of the classification and phylogeny of Nemacheiline loaches of the group lacking the preethmoid I (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae: Nemacheilinae). Journal of Ichthyology, 49 (10), 874 - 898. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / S 0032945209100051
- Coad, B. W. (1981) Fishes of Afghanistan, an annoted checklist. National Museum of Canada Publications in Zoology, 14, i - v + 1 - 26.