Glyptothorax jalalensis Balon & Hensel 1970
Description
Glyptothorax jalalensis Balon & Hensel, 1970
[N]—Jalalabad catfish
Taxonomy. Original description: Glyptothorax jalalensis Balon & Hensel, 1970: 160, fig. 1 [Kabul River tributary, near Jalal-Abad (Jalalabad), Afghanistan; holotype:SNMB 2176].— Afghanistan synonyms: None.—Revisions: None.—Illustration: Balon & Hensel (1970: fig. 1).
Status in Afghanistan. Recorded from Afghanistan in original description by Balon & Hensel (1970: 160); confirmed by Coad (1981: 16; 2014: 284; 2015: 229).—Afghanistan materials: None.
Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Kabul River.—General distribution: Kabal River basin, Indus River drainage, Afghanistan and Pakistan.—Habitat: This species inhabits swift-flowing, larger rivers with a substrate of sand and gravel or rocks. Freshwater.
Economic importance. Locally consumed, but of 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
- Balon & Hensel
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Siluriformes
- Family
- Sisoridae
- Genus
- Glyptothorax
- Species
- jalalensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Glyptothorax jalalensis Balon, 1970 sec. Çiçek, Fricke, Eagderi, Sungur, Coad & Hamdard, 2023
References
- Balon, E. K. & Hensel, K. (1970) Notes on small collection of fishes fromAfghanistan with a description of Glyptothorax jalalensis, sp n (Pisces, Sisoridae). Vestnik Ceskoslovenske Spolesnosti Zoologicke, Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemoslovenicae, 34, 159 - 63.
- 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.