Alburnoides tabarestanensis Mousavi-Sabet, Anvarifar and Azizi, 2015

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Alburnoides tabarestanensis Mousavi-Sabet, Anvarifar and Azizi, 2015 – Endemic ( Fig. 219)

Alburnoides tabarestanensis Mousavi-Sabet [H.], AnvariFar [H.] & Azizi [F.] 2015: 146; Type locality: Tajan River, southern

Caspian Sea basin, Mazandaran Province, Iran, 36°11'N, 53°19'E. Holotype: VMFC AL201MH. Paratypes: GUIC ALT–P (4), VMFC AL2049P (45).

Common name: Pr: Khayateh-e Tabarestani, Lapek, En: Tabarestan Spirlin.

Diagnosis: Lack of obvious dark spots or pigmentation in the lateral line canal, terminal mouth with the tip of the mouth cleft between level of middle of pupil and lower margin of pupil, 2.5–4.2 pharyngeal teeth, usually 4 or 5 scale rows between lateral line and anal fin origin.

Meristic characters: D: III 7–9 (8), A: III 11–14 (12), P: 11–14 (12–13), V: 6–7 (7), GR: 7–10 (8–9), LL: 47–54, TV: 39–41.

Distribution: Caspian Sea basin ( Fig. 220). Occurs in several rivers in central parts of the Southern Caspian Sea basin, i.e., Tajan, Siyahrud, Keselian and Toji Rivers.

Taxonomy.

Conservation: IUCN: Not Evaluated, PC: Least Concern. A. tabarestanensis as it is the case for many of the other species of the genus, occurs in relatively high range distribution in very abundant populations. We therefore classified it as Least Concern.