Alburnus taeniatus Kessler, 1874

Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash, Ghanavi, Hamid Reza & Doadrio, Ignacio, 2020, Fig. 4 in Fig. 4 in Fig. 3 in Fig. 21. Sesarmops mora n in Paralbunea dayriti, Zoological Studies 59 (21), pp. 1-303 : 130-131

Alburnus taeniatus Kessler, 1874 – Native ( Fig. 233)

Alburnus taeniatus Kessler [K. F.] 1874: 26; Type locality: Syr-daria River, Turkestan [ Kazakhstan]. No types at ZIN.

Common name: Pr: Morvarid mahi navar dar, Morvarid mahi Harirud, En: Striped bystranka.

Diagnosis: Lacking stitched color pattern, having weak scale connection, and presence of a wide flank stripe especially in the formalin and ethanol preserved specimens can be diagnostic. It looks very similar to A. hohenackeri but the dark bar on the flanks, especially in fixed samples, can distinguish this species.

Meristic characters: D: III 8–9, A: III 11–12, P: 10–12, V: 7–8, GR: 15–20, LL: 40–43, TV: 36–39.

Distribution: Hari River basin ( Fig. 234). Just found in Hari River ( Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2016a).

Taxonomy: Berg (1949) placed in Alburnoides but base on previous study ( Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2016a) and own unpublished molecular study, it belongs to Alburnus .

Conservation: IUCN: Not Evaluated, PC: Data Deficient. The population size of this species in Iran is very small and is only found in the Harirud River slightly after Dusti Dam Lake, but there is no actual information on its distribution and statues in Turkmenistan and Afghanistan (to the best of our knowledge). Hence, more studies are necessary to assess this species’ conservation category.