Aphaniops stoliczkanus ( Day, 1872 )

Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, Zootaxa 5330 (2), pp. 201-226 : 218

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scientific name	Aphaniops stoliczkanus ( Day, 1872 )
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42. Aphaniops stoliczkanus ( Day, 1872) ―Arabian Killifish, Arabian Tooth-carp― Native

Taxonomy. Original description: Cyprinodon stoliczkanus Day, 1872:258 View in CoL [from a stream at the village Joorun and along edge of the Rann River , Lodai, India, 22°30’N, 69°20’E; Syntypes: (28) AMS B.7730-31 (2), GoogleMaps BMNH 1889.2.1.2065-2074 (orig. 21), GoogleMaps ZSI 1477-78 (1, 1)] GoogleMaps .

Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Saudi Arabia, Oman, and UAE by Freyhof et al. (2017), Freyhof et al. (2020), Esmaeili et al. (2022), and Zarei et al. (2023).

General distribution. Middle East, South Asia: Oman and Persian Gulf east to Pakistan and Gujarat ( India). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Widely distributed in the coastal area of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and UAE.

Economic importance. No commercial importance. It has potential to be used as aquarium fish.

Conservation. Least Concern (LC).

References

Day, F. (1872) Notes on fish, collected by Dr. Stoliczka in Kachh. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 41 (Pt 2, No. 1 - 4), 258 - 260.

Esmaeili, H. R., Jufaili, S. A., Masoumi, A. H. & Zarei, F. (2022) Ichthyodiversity in southeastern Arabian Peninsula: Annotated checklist, taxonomy, short description and distribution of Inland fishes of Oman. Zootaxa, 5134 (4), 451 - 503. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5134.4.1

Freyhof, J., Weissenbacher, A. & Geiger, M. (2017) Aphanius kruppi, a new killifish from Oman with comments on the A. dispar species group (Cyprinodontiformes: Aphaniidae). Zootaxa, 4338 (3), 557 - 573. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4338.3.10

Freyhof, J., Feulner, G. R., Hamidan, N. A. & Krupp, F. (2020) Freshwater fishes Fishes of the Arabian Peninsula. Motivate Media Group, Dubia, 272 pp.

Zarei, F., Masoumi, A. H., Al Jufaili, S. M. & Esmaeili, H. R. (2023) Contribution to the diversity and distribution of Aphaniops (Teleostei: Aphaniidae) in Oman freshwater ecoregions: units for taxonomy and conservation. Biologia, 78 (3), 851 - 863. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 11756 - 022 - 01289 - z

Abbreviations

AMS	Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Australian Museum
BMNH	United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)]