Paraschistura turcmenica
Description
Paraschistura turcmenica (Berg, 1932)
[N]— Turkmenistan loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Nemacheilus turcmenicus Berg, 1932: 149, fig. 1 [Kelte-chinar River (Cherokh River) near Gyaurs (37°47‘N, 58°44‘E), Turkmenistan; syntypes: ZIN 11064 (3)].— Afghanistan synonyms: None.—Revisions: Berg (1949: 876) as synonym of Nemacheilus sargadensis Nikolskii, 1900; Freyhof et al. (2015: 17).—Illustration: Berg (1932: fig. 1) as Nemacheilus turcmenicus.
Status in Afghanistan. This species not recorded from Afghanistan, however, it is distributed in joining waterways with Afghanistan (Coad 1995; Mousavi Sabet et al. 2015,).—Afghanistan materials: None.
Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Murgab River.—General distribution: Middle East, northern-central Asia and South Asia: Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Iran.—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— Moderate sensitivity to human activities.—Keystone species.—Decline status: Unknown.—Moderate priority for conservation action.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Berg
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Nemacheilidae
- Genus
- Paraschistura
- Species
- turcmenica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paraschistura turcmenica (Berg, 1932) sec. Çiçek, Fricke, Eagderi, Sungur, Coad & Hamdard, 2023
References
- Berg, L. S. (1932) Zwei neue Bartgrundeln (Nemachilus, Pisces) aus Turkestan. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 98 (5 / 6), 149 - 150.
- Berg, L. S. (1949) s. n. In: Ryby presnych vod SSSR i sopredelnych stan. [Freshwater fishes of the U. S. S. R. and adjacent countries]. Vol. 2. 4 th Edition. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR. [Guide to the Fauna of the U. S. S. R.], Moskva. Freshwater fishes of the U. S. S. R. and adjacent countries No. 29. Russian Academy of Sciences, USSR, Moskva, pp. 467 - 925. [in Russian, English translation appeared in Israel Program of Scientific Translation, Jerusalem, 1964, 496 pp.]
- Nikolskii, A. M. (1900) A new Discognathus from Russia (Pisces, Cyprinidae). Ezhegodnik, Zoologicheskago Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 5, 239 - 241.
- Freyhof, J., Sayyadzadeh, G., Esmaeili, H. R. & Geiger, M. (2015) Review of the genus Paraschistura from Iran with description of six new species (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 26 (2), 1 - 48.
- Coad, B. W. (1995) Freshwater fishes of Iran. Acta scientiarum naturalium Academiae scientiarum Bohemicae, Brno, 29 (1), 1 - 64.
- Mousavi Sabet, H., Vatandoust, S., Jouladeh Roudbar, A. & Eagderi, S. (2015) Taxonomic Status of the Genus Paraschistura (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) in the Hari River Basin, with Re - validation of P. turcomana. Journal of Applied Biological Sciences, 9 (3), 01 - 05.