Luciobarbus esocinus Heckel, 1843

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Jawad, Laith, Eagderi, Soheil, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Mouludi-Saleh, Atta, Sungur, Sevil & Fricke, Ronald, 2023, Freshwater fishes of Iraq: a revised and updated annotated checklist- 2023, Zootaxa 5357 (1), pp. 1-49 : 16

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10018789

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Luciobarbus esocinus Heckel, 1843
status

 

Luciobarbus esocinus Heckel, 1843 View in CoL [N]—Pike barbel

Taxonomy. Original description: Luciobarbus esocinus Heckel, 1843: 1054 View in CoL [64] [Tigris River, Mosul, Iraq; syntypes: NMW 54088 (2), 54091-92 (1, 1); SMF 454 (ex NMW) (1), 6785 (ex NMW) (1)].— Iraq synonyms: Barbus esocinus ( Heckel, 1843) View in CoL .—Revisions: None.—Illustration: Heckel (1843: pl. 4, fig. 2); Esmaeili (2021: 307, fig. 17.9).

Status in Iraq. Recorded from Iraq in original description by Heckel (1843).—Iraq materials: NMW.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: Euphrates and Tigris River basins.—General distribution: Middle East: Euphrates and Tigris river systems ( Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran).—Habitat: This species occurs in large rivers and reservoirs from which they migrate to inflowing rivers to spawn. Freshwater.

Economic importance. Commercially important.

Conservation. Conservation status in Iraq: Unknown.—IUCN: VU (IUCN 2023).—Threats: FIT.—High sensitivity to human activities.—Keystone species.—Decline status: Decreasing.—High priority for conservation action.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopteri

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Cyprinidae

SubFamily

Barbinae

Genus

Luciobarbus

Loc

Luciobarbus esocinus Heckel, 1843

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Jawad, Laith, Eagderi, Soheil, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Mouludi-Saleh, Atta, Sungur, Sevil & Fricke, Ronald 2023
2023
Loc

Luciobarbus esocinus

Heckel 1843: 1054
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