Alburnoides petru Bǎnǎrescui Bogutskaya and Coad, 2009

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Alburnoides petru Bǎnǎrescui Bogutskaya and Coad, 2009 – Endemic ( Fig. 213 )

Alburnoides petru Bǎnǎrescui, Bogutskaya [N. G.] & Coad [B. W.] 2009: 154; Type locality: Qasemlou Chay, Orumiyeh [Urmia] Lake basin, ca. 37°21'N, 45°09'E, Azarbaijan-e Bakhtari, Iran. Holotype: CMNFI 1970–0558. Paratypes: CMNFI 1970–0558A (51).

Common name: Pr: Khayateh-e Oromiyeh, Lapek, En: Urmia Spirlin.

Diagnosis: Small eye, orbit width about equal to the snout length but markedly smaller than the interorbital width, caudal fin shallowly forked with rounded lobes, a deep head with a stout snout which is markedly rounded, a tip of the mouth cleft on the level below the lower margin of the eye, branched dorsal fin rays, 2.5–4.2 pharyngeal teeth, the most common vertebral formulae are 21 + 19 and 21 + 20 ( Bogutskaya and Coad 2009).

Meristic characters: D: III 7–8 (7), A: III 8–10 (9), P: 13–15 (13–14), V: 6–7 (7), GR: 6–8 (77), LL: 43–50 (44–49), TV: 39–42 (39).

Distribution: Urmia Lake basin ( Fig. 214).

Taxonomy.

Conservation: IUCN: Not Evaluated, PC: Critically Endangered B2ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v). Even after extensive effort sampling the type locality and its surroundings by many colleagues, the species has not been found. In addition, the region has suffered drastically from the recent years’ drought, drying permanently or periodically many rivers of the region. Therefore, the species may be extinct, although as some very isolated and not accessible points have not been checked extensively and there is also the possibility of finding some individuals in dam reservoirs, we therefore classified it as Critically Endangered, possibly Extinct (on a precautionary basis), and recommend more surveys.

Figures

Fig. 213. Alburnoides petru Bǎnǎrescui (holotype), caught at Qasemlou Chay River, Urmia basin (Photographed by N. Bogutskaya and B. Coad).