Capoeta damascina (Valenciennes, 1842)

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 : 15

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7CDE221A-1E73-416D-A984-23E64D9451A6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10018785

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D65887E4-FFA5-FF8B-98C8-D2F6FCEDF8C5

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Capoeta damascina (Valenciennes, 1842)
status

 

Capoeta damascina (Valenciennes, 1842) View in CoL [N]—Mesopotamian barb

Taxonomy. Original description: Gobio damascinus Valenciennes View in CoL in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1842: 314, Pl. 482 [Damascus, Syria; lectotype: MNHN 0000-4494. Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1948: 43].— Iraq synonyms: Scaphiodon fratercula Heckel, 1843 View in CoL ; Scaphiodon socialis Heckel, 1843 View in CoL ; Scaphiodon peregrinorum Heckel, 1843 View in CoL ; Capoeta syriaca (Valenciennes, 1844) View in CoL ; Capoeta kosswigi Karaman, 1969 View in CoL .—Revisions: Alwan et al. (2016: 17).—Illustration: Krupp & Schneider (1989: 366. fig. 17).

Status in Iraq. First record from Iraq by Coad (2010); confirmed by Agha et al. (2023).—Iraq materials: None.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: Euphrates River drainage.—General distribution: Asia Minor and Middle East: Levant, Mesopotamia, and southeastern Anatolia ( Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Israel, and Jordan).— Habitat: This species inhabits a wide range of all kinds of permanent waterbodies at least seasonally with gravel or running water. Freshwater.

Economic importance. Locally commercially important.

Conservation. Conservation Status in Iraq: Unknown.—IUCN: LC (IUCN 2023).—Threats: ABS, CLI, CON, EUT, HAB.—Low sensitivity to human activities.—Not considered a keystone species.—Decline status: Decreasing.—Low priority for conservation action.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopteri

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Cyprinidae

SubFamily

Barbinae

Genus

Capoeta

Loc

Capoeta damascina (Valenciennes, 1842)

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

Capoeta kosswigi

Karaman 1969
1969
Loc

Scaphiodon fratercula

Heckel 1843
1843
Loc

Scaphiodon socialis

Heckel 1843
1843
Loc

Scaphiodon peregrinorum

Heckel 1843
1843
Loc

Gobio damascinus

Valenciennes 1842
1842
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