Hemiculter leucisculus
Description
Hemiculter leucisculus (Basilewsky, 1855)
[I] — Sharpbelly
Taxonomy. Original description: Culter leucisculus Basilewsky, 1855: 238 [Rivers flowing into Bay of Tschili (Chihli), Beijing (Peking), China; syntypes: ZIN 5272 (2)].— Afghanistan synonyms: None.—Revisions: Berg (1949: 808).—Illustration: Berg (1949: 809, fig. 553).
Status in Afghanistan. First record from Afghanistan by Moravec and Amin (1978); confirmed by Coad (1981: 10; 2014: 318).—Afghanistan materials: None.
Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Kunduz and Khanabat Rivers.—General distribution: East Asia; introduced elsewhere.—Habitat: This species is usually found in large and medium-sized rivers in shallow water over sandy bottoms, but sometimes occurs in pools along the bed of mountain streams; it is also abundant in ponds, lakes, and the backwaters of rivers. It is highly tolerant to water pollution. Freshwater, brackish.
Economic importance. Locally commercially important.
Reasons of introduction. Fisheries: enhancement of wild stocks and sports fishing.
Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Hemiculter
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Basilewsky
- Species
- leucisculus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hemiculter leucisculus (Basilewsky, 1855) sec. Çiçek, Fricke, Eagderi, Sungur, Coad & Hamdard, 2023
References
- Basilewsky, S. (1855) Ichthyographia Chinae borealis. Nouveaux memoires de la Societe imperiale des naturalistes de Moscou, 10, 215 - 263.
- 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.]
- Moravec, F. & Amin, A. (1978) Some helminth parasites excluding Monogenea from fishes of Afghanistan. Acta Sci Nat Brun, 12, 1 - 45.
- Coad, B. W. (1981) Fishes of Afghanistan, an annoted checklist. National Museum of Canada Publications in Zoology, 14, i - v + 1 - 26.
- Coad, B. W. (2014) Fishes of Afghanistan. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow. 393 pp.