Paraphanius mento ( Heckel, 1843 )

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 : 31

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5357.1.1
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scientific name	Paraphanius mento ( Heckel, 1843 )
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Paraphanius mento ( Heckel, 1843) [N]—Pearl-spotted killifish

Taxonomy. Original description: Lebias mento Heckel, 1843: 1089 View in CoL [99] [Mossul, northern Iraq (36°18’N, 43°18’E); Possible syntypes: NMW 21699-704 (6), 59832 (21)].— Iraq synonyms: Aphanius mento ( Heckel, 1843) View in CoL .— Revisions: Esmaeili et al. (2020).—Illustration: Heckel (1843: pl. 6 (fig. 4)).

Status in Iraq. Recorded from Iraq in original description by Heckel (1843).—Iraq materials: NMW.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: Tigris River basin.—General distribution: Middle East: Tigris River basin (southern Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran).—Habitat: This species inhabits a wide range of springs, streams, lakes, and rivers. Freshwater.

Economic importance. Has potential to be used as aquarium fish.

Conservation. Conservation Status in Iraq: Unknown.—IUCN: LC (IUCN 2023).—Threats: There are many threats in the area, but none seems to be strong enough to threaten this species.—High sensitivity to human activities.—Keystone species.—Decline status: Decreasing.—High priority for conservation action.

References

Esmaeili, H. R., Teimori, A., Zarei, F. & Sayyadzadeh, G. (2020) DNA barcoding and species delimitation of the Old World tooth-carps, family Aphaniidae Hoedeman, 1949 (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes). PLoS ONE, 15 (4), e 0231717, 1 - 26. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0231717

Heckel, J. J. (1843) Ichthyologie [von Syrien]. In: von Russegger, J., Reisen in Europa, Asien und Afrika, mit besonderer Rucksicht auf die naturwissenschaftlichen Verhaltnisse der betreffenden Lander unternommen in den Jahren 1835 bis 1841, etc. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung. Stuttgart. Ichthyologie [von Syrien], 1 (pt 2), 991 - 1099.