31. Oxynoemacheilus bergianus (Derjavin, 1934)

Common name. Kura sportive loach

Taxonomy. Original description: Nemachilus bergianus Derjavin, 1934: 109, fig. 8 [Kisum village, Shah-rud River, Safid Rud basin, Iran; holotype (unique): ZIN 25433] .

Revisions. None.

Illustrations. Sayyadzadeh et al. (2017: 236, fig. 7).

Distribution in Iran: —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea, Namak Lake, Lake Orumiyeh.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates, 445-Orumiyeh, 447-Namak.

Status in Iran. [Native].—Loch mahi-e Sefidrud.—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.