Glyptothorax steindachneri ( Pietschmann, 1913 )

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 : 25

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10018868
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scientific name	Glyptothorax steindachneri ( Pietschmann, 1913 )
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Glyptothorax steindachneri ( Pietschmann, 1913) View in CoL [N]—Steindachner’s cat

Taxonomy. Original description: Glyptosternum steindachneri Pietschmann, 1913: 93 View in CoL [Tigris River, Mosul, Iraq; syntypes: (2, NMW?)].—Iraq synonyms: None.—Revisions: Freyhof et al. (2021: 479); Sayyadzadeh et al. (2022, molecular systematics).—Illustration: Freyhof et al. (2021: 480, fig. 28) .

Status in Iraq. Recorded from Iraq in original description by Pietschmann (1913).—Iraq materials: NMW.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: Tigris and Euphrates River basins.—General distribution: Middle East: Tigris and Euphrates River basins, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.—Habitat: All species of this genus in the Middle East inhabit fast-running sections of streams and rivers. Freshwater.

Economic importance. No commercial importance.

Conservation. Conservation Status in Iraq: Unknown.—IUCN: NE (2023).—Threats: Unknown.—Moderate sensitivity to human activities.—Keystone species.—Decline status: Unknown.—Moderate priority for conservation action.