Acanthobrama marmid 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 : 20

Acanthobrama marmid Heckel, 1843 [N]—Mesopotamian bream

Taxonomy. Original description: Acanthobrama marmid Heckel, 1843: 1075 [85] [Kucik River at Aleppo, Syria; syntypes: NMW 55345-48 (2, 2, 2, 2), 79068 (2); RMNH 2537 [ex NMW] (4) Aleppo, 2539 [ex NMW] (2) Aleppo; SMF 543 [ex NMW] (4) Aleppo].— Iraq synonyms: Acanthobrama arrhada Heckel, 1843 ; Acanthobrama cupida Heckel, 1843 .—Revisions: None.—Illustration: Heckel (1843: pl. 9 (fig. 2)).

Status in Iraq. Recorded from Iraq by Heckel (1843).—Iraq materials: None.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: Euphrates and Tigris River basins.—General distribution: Middle East: Euphrates, Tigris, and Orontes river basins ( Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran).—Habitat: Very ubiquitous species inhabit all kinds of lowland water bodies with standing or slowly flowing waters such as larger streams, rivers, springs, marshes, reservoirs, and lakes, as well as in moderately polluted water bodies. Usually absent from fast flowing and cold mountain streams. Freshwater.

Economic importance. Commercially important.

Conservation. Conservation Status in Iraq: Unknown.—IUCN: LC (IUCN 2023).—Threats: There are many threats throughout the large distribution area of this species, but none is serious enough to impact major parts of the populations.—Low sensitivity to human activities.—Not considered as a keystone species.—Decline status: Stable.—Low priority for conservation action.