Carasobarbus sublimus ( Coad & Najafpour, 1997 )

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 : 13

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10018681
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scientific name	Carasobarbus sublimus ( Coad & Najafpour, 1997 )
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Carasobarbus sublimus ( Coad & Najafpour, 1997) View in CoL [N]—Himri

Taxonomy. Original description: Barbus sublimus Coad & Najafpour, 1997: 274 View in CoL , fig. 1 [A’la River at Pol-e Tighen, 31°23.5’N, 49°53’E, Khuzestan Province, Iran; holotype: CMNFI 1995-0009].— Iraq synonyms: Kosswigobarbus sublimus ( Coad & Najafpour, 1997) .—Revisions: Borkenhagen & Krupp (2013: 42).— Illustration: Mirza & Javed (1997: 274, fig. 1); Mohamed et al. (2016).

Status in Iraq. First record from Iraq by Mohamed et al. (2016).—Iraq materials: None.

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

Economic importance. Locally commercially important.

Conservation. Conservation status in Iraq: Unknown.—IUCN: NE (2023).—Threats: Unknown.—Low sensitivity to human activities.—Not considered a keystone species.—Decline status: Unknown.—Low priority for conservation action.