Glyptothorax cous ( Linnaeus, 1766 )

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 : 24

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scientific name	Glyptothorax cous ( Linnaeus, 1766 )
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Glyptothorax cous ( Linnaeus, 1766) View in CoL [N]—Tigris cat

Taxonomy. Original description: Silurus cous Linnaeus, 1766: 504 [Quweiq River, at Aleppo, Syria; holotype: BMNH 1955.6.25.2].—Iraq synonyms: None.—Revisions: Freyhof et al. (2021: 465); Sayyadzadeh et al. (2022).—Illustration: Freyhof et al. (2021: 467, figs. 11–12); Sayyadzadeh et al. (2022: 22, fig. 9) .

Status in Iraq. First record from Iraq by Berg (1931); confirmed by Coad (2010).—Iraq materials: None.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: Tigris-Euphrates River basin.—General distribution: Middle East: Tigris-Euphrates River basin, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria.—Habitat: This is a freshwater species that occurs in slow-running and standing streams. Freshwater.

Economic importance. No commercial importance.

Conservation. Conservation Status in Iraq: Unknown.—IUCN: NE (2023).—Threats: Unknown.—Moderate sensitivity to human activities.—Keystone species.—Decline status: Unknown.—Moderate priority for conservation action.

References

Berg, L. (1931) Description of a new siluroid fish, Glyptosternum kurdistanicum from the basin of the Tigris River. Izvestiya Akad. Nauk SSSR, 7, 1267 - 1270.

Coad, B. W. (2010) Freshwater fishes of Iraq. Pensoft Publication, Sofia, 274 pp., 16 pls.

Linnaeus, C. (1766) Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tom. 1. Pt. 1. 12 th Edition. Impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, 532 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 68927