Mastacembelus mastacembelus (Banks & Solander, 1794)

Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), Zootaxa 5402 (1), pp. 1-99 : 81

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scientific name	Mastacembelus mastacembelus (Banks & Solander, 1794)
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260. Mastacembelus mastacembelus (Banks & Solander, 1794) View in CoL

Common name. Mesopotamian spiny eel

Taxonomy: Original description: Ophidium mastacembelus Banks & Solander in Russell, 1794: 209, pl. 6 [locality unknown; no types known].

Revisions. Gholamhosseini et al. (2022).

Illustrations. None.

Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Tigris, Kor River, Persis.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 441-Lower Tigris & Euphrates, 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates.

Status in Iran. [Native].—Marmahi-e khardar.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.

Conservation. —IUCN: LC.

Anabantiformes