Alburnus sellal Heckel, 1843

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 : 129-130

Alburnus sellal Heckel, 1843 – Native ( Figs. 230, 231)

Alburnus capito Heckel [J. J.] 1843: 1086 [96]; Type locality: Gebergsflüssen Kurdistans. Syntypes: NMW 55505 (4, now 5).

Alburnus hebes Heckel [J. J.] 1843: 1086 [96]; Type locality: Aleppo, Syria. Syntypes: NMW 55523 [? = 17558–60] (3).

Alburnus microlepis Heckel [J. J.] 1843: 1083 [93]; Type locality: Aleppo, Syria. Holotype (unique): NMW 55655 .

Alburnus mossulensis Heckel [J. J.] 1843: 1086 [96]; Type locality: Tigris River near Mosul, Iraq. Syntypes: NMW 55656 (2), 55717–18 (2, 2), 77723 (2);?RMNH 2644 [ex NMW] (1); SMF 402 [ex NMW] (2).

Leuciscus maxillaris Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1844: 296; Type locality: Iran rivers. Syntypes: MNHN A–3954 (2).

Alburnus caudimacula Heckel [J. J.] 1847: 264; Type locality: Kara Agatsch River and near the village of Gerè, Iran. Syntypes: NMW 55506 (15), RMNH 2654 [ex NMW] (4).

Alburnus iblis Heckel [J. J.] 1847: 263; Type locality: Persepolis area and the waters of the Araxes, Iran. Syntypes: NMW 55524 (7).

Alburnus megacephalus Heckel [J. J.] 1847: 265; Type locality: Araxes [= Kor] River, Fars, Iran. Syntypes: NMW 55627 (2).

Alburnus schejtan Heckel [J. J.] 1847: 264; Type locality: Araxes River at Persepolis, Iran. Syntypes: NMW 22281 (4), 55663 (2), 55719 (2), 55721 (2).

Alburnus zagrosensis Coad [B. W.] 2009: 64; Type locality: Chaharmahal Va Bakhtiari, stream 3 km east of Boldaji, upper Karun River basin, 31°55'N, 51°05'E, Zagros Mountains, Iran, elevation over 2,300 m. Holotype: CMNFI 1979–0248. Paratypes: CMNFI 1979–0246 (49).

Common name: Pr: Shah kuli-ye jonubi, Shah mahi, En: Mossul bleak.

Diagnosis: Ventral keel short and naked, commonly 8 branched dorsal fin rays and distribution can be used to identify this species.

Meristic characters: D: III 7–9 (8), A: III 10–13 (11–12), P: 13–18 (15–16), V: 7–9 (8), GR: 11–18 (13– 15), LL: 66–89, TV: 40–45.

Distribution: Tigris, Kor, Maharlu Lake, Persis and Hormuz basins ( Fig. 232). Found in many Rivers Tigris basin and adjacent basins. It is found in most of the rivers of mentioned basins.

Taxonomy: A wide-ranging species with several available names usually placed in synonymy but possibly valid (e.g., A. caudimacula Heckel, 1849 ). According to Coad (2009), Alburnus zagrosensis Coad 2009 and A. mossulensis (now synonym of A. sellal ) have an overlap in all morphological features such as branched fins rays and vertebra, and only differ in the mean of these characters. Samples obtained from Gandoman Wetland (close to the type locality, Fig. 230) did not show any morphological and genetic difference to A. sellal (own unpublished data). Therefore, we consider A. zagrosensis as a synonym of A. sellal .

Conservation: IUCN: Not Evaluated, PC: Least Concern. Widespread species and relatively abundant without any known threat to them, and thus we classified it as Least Concern.