Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran; a revised and updated annotated checklist-2022

Turkish Journal of Zoology

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EAGDERI, SOHEIL¹  MOULUDI-SALEH, ATTA¹  ESMAELI, HAMID RIZA²  SAYYADZADEH, GOLNAZ²  NASRI, MANONCHEHR³ 

[1] Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran;Ichthyology and Molecular Systematics Laboratory, Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Shiraz University;Department of Environmental and Fisheries Sciences and Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Lorestan University

关键词: Freshwater ichthyofauna;    Iran;    endemism;    introduced;   

DOI  :  10.55730/1300-0179.3104

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey - TUBITAK

【 摘 要 】

The current status of the inland waters ichthyofauna of Iran is revised and updated. A total of 292 fish species belong to 3 classes, 24 orders, 36 families and 106 genera inhabit the inland waters of Iran. Among these, 29 species (9.9%) are exotic and 102 species (35%) are endemic. Orders with the largest numbers of species in the ichthyofauna of Iran are the Cypriniformes (182 species) followed by Gobiiformes (30 species), Cyprinodontiformes (15 species), Siluriformes (12 species), Clupeiformes (10 species), Acipenseriformes and Cichliformes (7 species) and Mugiliformes (6 species). At the family level, the Cyprinidae has the greatest number of species (74 species; 25.34% of the total species), followed by the Nemacheilidae (47 species), Leuciscidae (42 species), Gobiidae (30 species), Aphaniidae (11 species), Clupeidae (10 species), Acipenseridae and Cichlidae and Sisoridae (7 species in each) and Cobitidae and Mugilidae (6 species).

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