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

Glyptothorax cous ( Linnaeus, 1766) [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.