Clupisoma naziri Mirza & Awan, 1973

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Fricke, Ronald, Eagderi, Soheil, Sungur, Sevil, Coad, Brian W & Hamdard, Mohammad Hamid, 2023, Fishes of Afghanistan; a revised and updated annotated checklist, Zootaxa 5305 (1), pp. 1-69 : 37-38

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5305.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:55EB7903-BB1A-45F9-9660-16DAF957C67A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8097272

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA1A3C-FF8E-FFAE-38E2-18CC8BDC652C

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Clupisoma naziri Mirza & Awan, 1973
status

 

Clupisoma naziri Mirza & Awan, 1973 View in CoL

[N]—Indus garua

Taxonomy. Original description: Clupisoma naziri Mirza & Awan, 1973: 152 View in CoL , fig. 2 [Indus River at Jinnah Barrage, Pakistan; holotype: GCM No. 10].— Afghanistan synonyms: None.—Revisions: Jayaram (2006: 128).— Illustration: Mirza & Awan (1973: fig. 2).

Status in Afghanistan. First listed by (1981: 15; 2014: 330) as possible distributed species in Kabul River.— Afghanistan materials: None.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Kabul River.—General distribution: Indus River basin, Pakistan.—Habitat: This species occurs primarily in rivers (and sometimes in lakes) in sub-mountainous areas. It is potamodromous, migrating upstream in May–August in the lower reaches, and then in winter it migrates back downstream, covering large distances. It is a carnivorous species that feeds on aquatic insects and mollusks. Freshwater.

Economic importance. No commercial importance.

Conservation. Conservation status in Afghanistan: Unknown.—IUCN: NT ( Ahmad et al. 2022).—Threats: FIT, CON, ABS, HAB, EUT.—Moderate sensitivity to human activities.—Not considered as a keystone species.— Decline status: Decreasing.—Moderate priority for conservation action.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Siluriformes

Family

Schilbeidae

Genus

Clupisoma

Loc

Clupisoma naziri Mirza & Awan, 1973

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Fricke, Ronald, Eagderi, Soheil, Sungur, Sevil, Coad, Brian W & Hamdard, Mohammad Hamid 2023
2023
Loc

Clupisoma naziri

Mirza & Awan 1973: 152
1973
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