Paraschistura ilamensis Vatandoust and Eagderi, 2015

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Paraschistura ilamensis Vatandoust and Eagderi, 2015 – Native ( Fig. 367)

Paraschistura ilamensis Vatandoust [S.] & Eagderi [S.] 2015: 178; Type locality: Ilam Province, Spring at Siahgav, Tigris River drainage, Iran, 33°51'54"N, 47°42'02"E. Holotype: VMFC PS13-H. Paratypes: VMFC PSI3-P (30).

Paraschistura pasatigris Freyhof [J.], Sayyadzadeh [G.], Esmaeili [H. R.] & Geiger [M. F.] 2015: 37; Type locality: Khozestan Province, Bala River (Balarud), at Dezful, a tributary of Dez River, 32°20'14"N, 48°17'14"E, Iran. Holotype: ZM-CBSU J3247. Paratypes: ZM-CBSU J3248 (28).

Common name: Pr: Loch-e Ilam, Sagmahi-e Ilam, En: Ilam loach.

Diagnosis: Body depth, stout and covered by scale, caudal peduncle deep, 7–10 irregular and interrupted vertical pale brown bars on flanks and two obvious small black spots on the upper and lower caudal fin unbranched rays, caudal fin emarginated.

Meristic characters: D: 7–8, A: 5, P: 7–9, V: 6–7, LL: reaching to about midway between pectoral fin origin and dorsal fin origin or to a point slightly behind dorsal fin origin, SC: just back and flank, DP: small and pointed, PA: present, SOG: present.

Distribution: Tigris basin ( Fig. 368). Found in Cholvar, Siah Gav and Balarud rivers.

Taxonomy: P. ilamensis and P. pasatigris actually are single species with two different names. P. ilamensis paper was published in May 2015 and P. pasatigris in June 2015, which makes P. pasatigris a junior synonym of P. ilamensis .

Conservation: IUCN: Not Evaluated, PC: Least Concern. While there are many threats in the distribution range of this species, it is suspected to be declining slowly and it still has many independent populations. Over the last 10 years, the number of independent populations and population sizes have stayed practically the same. We estimated that the decline is not strong enough to qualify this species for NT or another threatened category. Therefore, we classified it as Least Concern.