Oxynoemacheilus longipinnis (Coad and Nalbant, 2005)

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Oxynoemacheilus longipinnis (Coad and Nalbant, 2005) – Native ( Fig. 320)

Ilamnemacheilus longipinnis Coad [B. W.] & Nalbant [T. T.] 2005: 304; Type locality: Meymeh River (formerly tributary of Tigris River ), Tigris-Euphrates drainage, 17 km west of Dehloran City, about 21 km east of Iraqi border, 32°45'30"N, 47°05'30"E, Iran. Holotype (unique): CMNFI 1979–0366 (ex NMC 79–966).

Common name: Pr: Loch-e Ilam, Sagmahi-e Ilam,

En: Ilam loach.

Diagnosis: Body deep and compressed laterally, a suborbital groove in males, 8 branched dorsal fin rays, pale body pattern, very small or absent median incision in upper lip, deeply emarginated to forked caudal fin, short and oval shaped swim bladder capsules connected by a wide manubrium, and no tubercles on the suborbital groove or pectoral fin rays in males.

Meristic characters: D: 8–9 (8), A: 4–5, P: 9–10, V: 6–7, LL: complete, SC: whole body, DP: narrow and pointed, PA: absent, SOG: weakly expressed to absent.

Distribution: Tigris basin ( Fig. 321). Found in Meymeh, Doiraj, Changooleh Rivers and maybe found in Kangir River ( Sayyadzadeh et al. 2017). Esmaeili et al. (2017 2018) regarding O. longipinnis as Iranian endemic but it found in several Rivers which shared between Iran and Iraq, so we cannot include this spices as endemic.

Taxonomy: Freyhof et al. (2016) using molecular markers placed it in Oxynoemacheilus .

Conservation: IUCN: Not Evaluated, PC: Least Concern. O. longipinnis has a relatively large distribution range, occurs in numerous population size, and there is no known widespread threat affecting its populations. Therefore, we classified it as Least Concern.