Alburnoides eichwaldii (De Filippi, 1863)

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Alburnoides eichwaldii (De Filippi, 1863) – Native ( Fig. 201)

Alburnus eichwaldii De Filippi [F.] 1863: 392 [18]; Type locality: Kura River near Tiflis [T’bilisi], Georgia, Eurasia. Syntypes: MZUT 677 (4), NMW 55516 (2).

Alburnoides bipunctatus armeniensis Dadikyan [M. G.] 1972: 566 [550]; Type locality: Rivers Arpa, Vorotan, Vedi, Marmarik, Kasakh and their tributaries, basin of river Araks, Armenia. Syntypes: (434) ZIN 37502 (10).

Common name: Pr: Khayateh, Lapek, En: Spirlin.

Diagnosis: Eyes small, orbit diameter shorter than the interorbital width, caudal fin with pointed lobes and fin being clearly forked, a sharp scaleless keel behind the pelvic fins along the abdomen to the anus, a triangular head, snout slightly rounded and an upper jaw longer than the lower jaw, a tip of the mouth cleft on the level below the lower margin of the pupil, 2.5–4.2 pharyngeal teeth, most common vertebral formulae are 20 + 20, 20 + 21 and 21 + 20.

Meristic characters: D: III 8, A: III 13–16, P: 13–15, V: 7, GR: 6–8, LL: 44–56, TV: 40–42.

Distribution: Caspian Sea basin ( Fig. 202). Occurring in the western parts of the Caspian Sea basin, it is found in Aras drainage, Balekhlu chay, Qarasu, Kalibar rud and Saghezchi Rivers.

Taxonomy: Berg (1949) was regarded as a Caspian Sea basin subspecies of Alburnoides bipunctatus but Fricke et al. (2007) give it full rank species.

Conservation: IUCN: Least Concern ( Freyhof 2014b).

Alburnoides holciki Coad and Bogutskaya, 2012 – Native

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Alburnoides holciki Coad [B. W.] & Bogutskaya [N. G.] 2012: 44; Type locality: Hari River at Herat, 34°20'N, 62°12'E, Afganistan. Holotype: SNM 6788 (101.8 mm TL). Paratypes: SNM 6788 (26). Plus non-type material.

Alburnoides parhami Mousavi-Sabet [H.], Vatandoust [S.] & Doadrio [I.] 2015: 315; Type locality: Baba-Aman Stream, Atrak River drainage, south-eastern Caspian Sea basin, Khorasan-e-Shomali Province, Iran, 37°29'N, 57°26'E. Holotype: VMFC-ALP3-H. Paratypes: GUIC, VMFC.

Common name: Pr: Khayateh-e Holicik, Lapek, En: Holcik’s Spirlin.

Diagnosis: A well-defined, sharp, short, slightly pointed snout, a terminal mouth with the tip of the mouth cleft on a level with the upper half of the pupil, a large eye (orbit width about equal to interorbital width), 2.5–4.2 pharyngeal teeth, most frequent vertebral formulae 20 + 21, 20 + 22 and 19 + 21.

Meristic characters: D: III 7–9 (8), A: III 11–14, P: 12–16, V: 6–8, GR: 6–14, LL: 47–57, TV: 40–42 (41).

Distribution: Hari and Caspian basins ( Fig. 205). This species occurs in Kashaf and Hari River system in Northeast of Iran as well as Atrak River.

Taxonomy: A. parhami is distinguished from populations of A. holciki with less than 0.4% genetic distance in the COI barcode region from type localities (own unpublished data). In addition, no diagnostic characteristic was found to distinguish both species. Therefore we consider A. parhami as a junior synonym of A. holciki .

Conservation: IUCN: Not Evaluated, PC: Data Deficient. In Iran it is found only in the output of the Iran-Turkmenistan Friendship Dam (= Doosti Reservoir Dam), to the best of our knowledge, and very little is known about its distribution in Turkmenistan or Afghanistan. We therefore classified it as Data Deficient and did not carry out conservation assessment.