Glyptothorax kurdistanicus
Creators
- 1. Department of Biology, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Nevşehir Hacı BektaşVeli University, Nevşehir, Türkiye
- 2. School of Environmental and Animal Sciences, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
- 3. Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
- 4. Ichthyology and Molecular Systematics Research Laboratory, Zoology Section, Department of Biology, School of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
- 5. Health Services Vocational School, Nevşehir Hacı BektaşVeli University, Nevşehir, Türkiye
- 6. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
Description
Glyptothorax kurdistanicus (Berg, 1931) [N]—Mesopotamian sucking catfish
Taxonomy. Original description: Glyptosternum kurdistanicus Berg, 1931: 384 [Serdesht, at Little Zab (36°N), River Bané basin, Iran, elevation 1500 meters; holotype: ZIN 20780].—Iraq synonyms: None.—Revisions: Freyhof et al. (2021: 472); Sayyadzadeh et al. (2022, molecular systematics).— Illustration: Freyhof et al. (2021: 473, fig. 18).
Status in Iraq. First record from Iraq by Berg, 1931; confirmed by Jawad et al. (2009) (Garraf River a branch of Euphrates River).—Iraq materials: Fish Collection of the Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources, College of Agriculture, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq.
Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: Tigris River basin.—General distribution: Middle East: Tigris River basin (Turkey, Iraq, and Iran).—Habitat: All species of this genus in the Middle East inhabit fast-running sections of streams and rivers. Freshwater.
Economic importance. No commercial importance.
Conservation. Conservation Status in Iraq: Unknown.—IUCN: DD (IUCN 2023).—Threats: ABS, CON, HAB.—Moderate sensitivity to human activities.—Not considered as a keystone species.—Decline status: Unknown.—Moderate priority for conservation action.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZIN
- Family
- Sisoridae
- Genus
- Glyptothorax
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- ZIN 20780
- Order
- Siluriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Berg
- Species
- kurdistanicus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Glyptothorax kurdistanicus (Berg, 1931) sec. Çiçek, Jawad, Eagderi, Esmaeili, Mouludi-Saleh, Sungur & Fricke, 2023
References
- Berg, L. (1931) Description of a new siluroid fish, Glyptosternum kurdistanicum from the basin of the Tigris River. Izvestiya Akad. Nauk SSSR, 7, 1267 - 1270.
- Jawad, L. A., Hussein, S. A. & Fahad, K. K. (2009) Glyptothorax kurdistanicus (Berg, 1931) (Pisces, Siluriformes, Sisoridae) in the lower reaches of the Tigris River, Iraq?. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 25 (6), 779 - 781. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1439 - 0426.2009.01314. x