Glyptothorax jalalensis Balon & Hensel, 1970

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 : 40

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:55EB7903-BB1A-45F9-9660-16DAF957C67A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8097288

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA1A3C-FF8D-FFAC-38E2-1EE189E16628

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Plazi

scientific name

Glyptothorax jalalensis Balon & Hensel, 1970
status

 

Glyptothorax jalalensis Balon & Hensel, 1970 View in CoL

[N]—Jalalabad catfish

Taxonomy. Original description: Glyptothorax jalalensis Balon & Hensel, 1970: 160 View in CoL , fig. 1 [Kabul River tributary, near Jalal-Abad (Jalalabad), Afghanistan; holotype:SNMB 2176].— Afghanistan synonyms: None.—Revisions: None.—Illustration: Balon & Hensel (1970: fig. 1).

Status in Afghanistan. Recorded from Afghanistan in original description by Balon & Hensel (1970: 160); confirmed by Coad (1981: 16; 2014: 284; 2015: 229).—Afghanistan materials: None.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Kabul River.—General distribution: Kabal River basin, Indus River drainage, Afghanistan and Pakistan.—Habitat: This species inhabits swift-flowing, larger rivers with a substrate of sand and gravel or rocks. Freshwater.

Economic importance. Locally consumed, but of no commercial importance.

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Siluriformes

Family

Sisoridae

Genus

Glyptothorax

Loc

Glyptothorax jalalensis Balon & Hensel, 1970

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

Glyptothorax jalalensis

Balon & Hensel 1970: 160
1970
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