Glyptothorax armeniacus ( 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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10018858
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scientific name	Glyptothorax armeniacus ( Linnaeus, 1766 )
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Glyptothorax armeniacus ( Linnaeus, 1766) View in CoL [N]—Tigris catfish

Taxonomy. Original description: Glyptosternum armeniacum Berg, 1918: 146 View in CoL [Mukhlassi-darasi River, Upper Euphrates River system, Turkey (possibly stream Habib at Oyuklu Mahallesi, Çat district, 39.6050, 40.9764); syntypes: (5) ZMT (?4, lost), ZSI [ex ZIN 20806 View Materials ] F11319/1 (1), ZIN 20806 View Materials (5, now 4)].—Iraq synonyms: None.—Revisions: Freyhof et al. (2021: 461); Sayyadzadeh et al. (2022).—Illustration: Freyhof et al. (2021: 461, fig. 5) GoogleMaps .

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.