Acanthopagrus berda (Fabricius, 1775)

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Jawad, Laith, Eagderi, Soheil, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Mouludi-Saleh, Atta, Sungur, Sevil & Fricke, Ronald, 2023, Freshwater fishes of Iraq: a revised and updated annotated checklist- 2023, Zootaxa 5357 (1), pp. 1-49 : 34

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scientific name	Acanthopagrus berda (Fabricius, 1775)
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Acanthopagrus berda (Fabricius, 1775) View in CoL [N]—Picnic seabream

Taxonomy. Original description: Sparus berda Fabricius, 1775: 32 View in CoL , xi [Al-Luhayya (Luhaiya), Yemen, Red Sea, approximately 15°41’52”N, 41°41’07”E; holotype: ZMUC P50555 View Materials (left dry skin, poor condition)].—Iraq synonyms: None.—Revisions: Iwatsuki (2013: 87).—Illustration: Randall (1995: 223, fig.) GoogleMaps .

Status in Iraq. First record from Iraq by Hora & Misra (1943) confirmed by Khalaf (1961), Mahdi (1962), Al-Hassan & Hussain (1985), Al-Dubaikel (1986), Al-Hassan et al. (1989) —Iraq materials: Fish collection at the Marine Science Centre, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: Tigris and Euphrates River drainages.—General distribution: Red Sea; Indian Ocean: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal ( South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra ( Yemen) and Madagascar east to Malaysia and Singapore.—Habitat: This species is an estuarine-dependent species that is found mainly on sandy and muddy grounds in shallow coastal waters to depths of 50 m and rarely enters freshwaters. Juveniles inhabit protected bays and estuaries. It feeds on invertebrates, including worms, mollusks, crustaceans, echinoderms, and small fish. Freshwater, brackish, marine.

Economic importance. Commercially important.

Conservation. Conservation Status in Iraq: Unknown.—IUCN: LC (IUCN 2023).—Threats: FIT, HAB.—Low sensitivity to human activities.—Not considered a keystone species.—Decline status: Unknown.—Low priority for conservation action.

References

Al-Dubaikel, A. Y. (1986) Composition of fish species in Shatt Al-Basrah canal and their trophic relations. M. Sc. Thesis, College of Agriculture, University of Basrah, 118 pp. [in Arabic]

Al-Hassan, L. A. J. & Hussain, N. A. (1985) Hydrological parameters influencing the penetration of Arabian Gulf fishes into the Shatt al Arab River, Iraq. Cybium, 9 (1), 7 - 16.

Al-Hassan, L. A. J, Hussain, N. A. & Soud, K. D. (1989) A preliminary annotated checklist of the fishes of Shatt Al-Arab river, Basrah, IRAQ. Polish Archives of Hydrobiology, 36 (2), 283 - 288.

Hora, S. L. & Misra K. S. (1943) On a small collection of fish from Iraq. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Science, Series 3, 9 (1), 1 - 15.

Iwatsuki, Y. (2013) Review of the Acanthopagrus latus complex (Perciformes: Sparidae) with descriptions of three new species from the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. Journal of Fish Biology, 83 (1), 64 - 95. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 12151

Khalaf, K. T. (1961) The marine and freshwater fishes of Iraq. Al-Rabitta Press, Baghdad: 164 pp.