Carassius gibelio ( Bloch, 1782 )

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 : 13

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scientific name	Carassius gibelio ( Bloch, 1782 )
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Carassius gibelio ( Bloch, 1782) View in CoL [I]—Gibel carp

Taxonomy. Original description: Cyprinus gibelio Bloch, 1782: 71 View in CoL , Pl. 12 [Olsche River pond, Odra River system, near Czech Teschen, 49°47’11”N, 18°35’24”E, Czech Republic; neotype: ZMB 33979].— Iraq synonyms: None.—Revisions: None.—Illustration: Jawad et al. (2012).

Status in Iraq. First record from Iraq by Jawad et al. (2012); confirmed by Al-Faisal et al. (2014).—Iraq materials: None.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: Tigris and Euphrates River basins.—General distribution: Eurasia: Eastern Europe, Russia to northeastern China; introduced elsewhere.—Habitat: This species inhabits rivers, lakes, reservoirs, ponds, and ditches with stagnant or slow-flowing water. It occurs in eutrophic fresh and brackish waters, well-vegetated ponds, and canals. Freshwater, brackish.

Economic importance. Commercially important.

Reasons of introduction. Unknown: Inadvertently introduced by transboundary waterways for no known reason or method.

Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).

References

Bloch, M. E. (1782) D. Marcus Elieser Bloch's, ausubenden Arztes zu Berlin. Oeconomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands. Erster Theil. Auf Kosten des Verfassers und in Commission bei dem Buchhandler Hr. Hesse, Berlin, 128 pp., pls. 1 - 37. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 63303

Jawad, L. A., Al-Faisal, A. & Al-Mukhtar, M. (2012) Presence of the non - indigenous fish species, Gibel carp, Carassius gibelio (Family: Cyprinidae) in Basrah Province freshwater systems, Iraq. Water Research and Management, 2 (4), 41 - 44.