Aphaniops stoliczkanus ( Day, 1872 )

Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, Zootaxa 5330 (2), pp. 201-226 : 218

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AA61E68D-3A1B-45BD-821F-E6AD862F6808

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8253163

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC87BD-FFAE-0A30-80F4-FF4AFD98FDFB

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scientific name

Aphaniops stoliczkanus ( Day, 1872 )
status

 

42. Aphaniops stoliczkanus ( Day, 1872) ―Arabian Killifish, Arabian Tooth-carp― Native

Taxonomy. Original description: Cyprinodon stoliczkanus Day, 1872:258 View in CoL [from a stream at the village Joorun and along edge of the Rann River , Lodai, India, 22°30’N, 69°20’E; Syntypes: (28) AMS B.7730-31 (2), GoogleMaps BMNH 1889.2.1.2065-2074 (orig. 21), GoogleMaps ZSI 1477-78 (1, 1)] GoogleMaps .

Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Saudi Arabia, Oman, and UAE by Freyhof et al. (2017), Freyhof et al. (2020), Esmaeili et al. (2022), and Zarei et al. (2023).

General distribution. Middle East, South Asia: Oman and Persian Gulf east to Pakistan and Gujarat ( India). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Widely distributed in the coastal area of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and UAE.

Economic importance. No commercial importance. It has potential to be used as aquarium fish.

Conservation. Least Concern (LC).

AMS

Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Australian Museum

BMNH

United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)]

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Cyprinodontiformes

Family

Cyprinodontidae

Genus

Aphaniops

Loc

Aphaniops stoliczkanus ( Day, 1872 )

Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat 2023
2023
Loc

Cyprinodon stoliczkanus

Day 1872: 258
1872
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