Aphanius stoliczkanus (Day, 1872)

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Aphanius stoliczkanus (Day, 1872) – Native ( Fig. 488 )

Cyprinodon stoliczkanus Day [F.] 1872: 258; Type locality: Stream at the village Joorun and along edge of the Rann River, Lodai, India, 22°30'N, 69°20'E. Syntypes: (28) AMS B.7730–31 (2), BMNH 1889.2.1.2065–2074 (orig. 21), ZSI 1477–78 (1, 1).

Common name: Pr: Gormahi kor, En: Kor tooth-carp.

Diagnosis: Males without any flank bars and caudal fin slightly emarginated.

Meristic characters: D: 7–11, A: 6–10, P: 19–26, V: 5–7, LS: 26–30, GR: 13–18, FB: 12–23 (in Female).

Distribution: Tigris, Persis , Hormuz, Makran and Mashkid basins ( Fig. 489). Found in Mond, Irandegan, Rudan, Saravan, Dalaki, Sartang Rivers and Mir Ahmad hot spring.

Taxonomy: Krupp (1983) placed as synonym of Aphanius dispar but Freyhof et al. (2017b) regard as full species.

Conservation: IUCN: Not Evaluated, PC: Least Concern.

No major threat seems to affect the populations of this widespread species. Therefore, we classified it as

Least Concern.

Figures

Fig. 488. Aphanius stoliczkanus (above: male, below: female). Photograph from Gotab River, Hormuz basin (Photographed by T. Hosseinpour).