Hemiculter leucisculus ( Basilewsky, 1855 )

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 : 19

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scientific name	Hemiculter leucisculus ( Basilewsky, 1855 )
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Hemiculter leucisculus ( Basilewsky, 1855) View in CoL [I] — Sharpbelly

Taxonomy. Original description: Culter leucisculus Basilewsky, 1855: 238 View in CoL [Rivers flowing into Bay of Tschili (Chihli), Beijing (Peking), China; syntypes: ZIN 5272 (2)].— Iraq synonyms: None.—Revisions: Berg (1949: 808).—Illustration: Berg (1949: 809, fig. 553); Esmaeili et al. (2011: 3, fig. 2); Zareian et al. (2015: 15, fig. 5); Esmaeili & Abbasi (2021: fig. 346: 18.52); Radkhah et al. (2016).

Status in Iraq. First record from Iraq by Coad & Hussain (2007); confirmed by Al-Faisal et al. (2014); Abdullah & Abdullah (2018).—Iraq materials: None.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: Euphrates River.—General distribution: East Asia; introduced elsewhere.—Habitat: This species is usually found in large and medium-sized rivers in shallow water over sandy bottoms, but sometimes occurs in pools along the bed of mountain streams; also abundant in ponds, lakes, and the backwaters of rivers. It is highly tolerant of water pollution. Freshwater, brackish.

Economic importance. LocWesternally commercially important.

Reasons of introduction. Fisheries: enhancement of wild stocks and sports fishing.

Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).

References

Abdullah, Y. S. & Abdullah, S. M. A. (2018) Ichthyofauna of Darbandikhan Lake in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. ZANCO Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences, 30 (6), 130 - 134. https: // doi. org / 10.21271 / ZJPAS. 30.6.12

Basilewsky, S. (1855) Ichthyographia Chinae borealis. Nouveaux memoires de la Societe imperiale des naturalistes de Moscou, 10, 215 - 263.

Berg, L. S. (1949) Ryby presnych vod SSSR i sopredelnych stan. [Freshwater fishes of the U. S. S. R. and adjacent countries]. Vol. 2. 4 th Edition. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR. [Guide to the Fauna of the U. S. S. R.], Moskva. Freshwater fishes of the U. S. S. R. and adjacent countries, No. 29, 467 - 925. [in Russian, English translation appeared in Israel Program of Scientific Translation, Jerusalem, 1964, pp. 1 - 496]

Coad, B. W. & Hussain, N. A. (2007) First record of the exotic species Hemiculter leucisculus (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae) in Iraq. Zoology in the Middle East, 40 (1), 107 - 109. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 09397140.2007.10638212

Esmaeili, H. R., Gholamifard, A. & Freyhof, J. (2011) Ichthyofauna of Zarivar Lake (Iran) with the first records of Hemiculter leucisculus and Alburnus hohenackeri in the Tigris drainage. Electronic Journal of Ichthyology, 7 (1), 1 - 6.

Radkhah, A., Eagderi, S. & Mousavi-Sabet H. (2016) First record of the exotic species Hemiculter leucisculus (Pisces: Cyprinidae) in southern Iran. Limnetica, 35 (1), 175 - 178. https: // doi. org / 10.23818 / limn. 35.14

Zareian, H., Esmaeili, H. R., Zamanian Nejad, R. & Vatandoust, S. (2015) Hemiculter leucisculus (Basilewsky, 1855) and Alburnus caeruleus Heckel, 1843: new data on their distributions in Iran. Caspian Journal of Environmental Science, 13, 11 - 20.