Aplocheilus blockii ( Arnold, 1911 )

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Fricke, Ronald, Eagderi, Soheil, Sungur, Sevil, Coad, Brian W & Hamdard, Mohammad Hamid, 2023, Fishes of Afghanistan; a revised and updated annotated checklist, Zootaxa 5305 (1), pp. 1-69 : 46

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5305.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8097315

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA1A3C-FF87-FFA6-38E2-1A158A886264

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scientific name

Aplocheilus blockii ( Arnold, 1911 )
status

 

Aplocheilus blockii ( Arnold, 1911) View in CoL View at ENA

[I] — Green panchax

Taxonomy. Original description: Haplochilus panchax blockii Arnold, 1911: 672 , fig. 3 [ Cochin, India; no types known].— Afghanistan synonyms: Aplocheilus blochi (Arnold,, 1911); Aplocheilus blochii ( Arnold, 1911) View in CoL .— Revisions: Seegers (1997: 16).—Illustration: Arnold (1911: fig. 3).

Status in Afghanistan. First record from Afghanistan by Hora (1935); confirmed by Coad (1981: 8).—Afghanistan materials: None.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Chahiltran Stream, tributary of Kabul River, West Kabul City, Afghanistan.—General distribution: Afghanistan and Pakistan.—Habitat: This species lives under the surface in still waters, mainly coastal and often brackish, especially where there is surface vegetation or cover, such as mangrove swamps and rice fields. Freshwater.

Economic importance. Valuable for the aquarium trade.

Reasons of introduction. Ornamental fish industry.

Conservation. Not relevant (intoduced species).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Cyprinodontiformes

Family

Aplocheilidae

Genus

Aplocheilus

Loc

Aplocheilus blockii ( Arnold, 1911 )

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Fricke, Ronald, Eagderi, Soheil, Sungur, Sevil, Coad, Brian W & Hamdard, Mohammad Hamid 2023
2023
Loc

Haplochilus panchax blockii

Arnold 1911: 672
1911
Loc

Aplocheilus blochi

Arnold 1911
1911
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