Puntius terio ( Hamilton, 1822 )

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Fricke, Ronald, Eagderi, Soheil, Sungur, Sevil, Coad, Brian W & Hamdard, Mohammad Hamid, 2023, Fishes of Afghanistan; a revised and updated annotated checklist, Zootaxa 5305 (1), pp. 1-69 : 22

Puntius terio ( Hamilton, 1822)

[N]—Onespot Barb

Taxonomy. Original description: Cyprinus terio Hamilton, 1822: 313 , 389 [Brahmaputra River, at Gualpara [Goalpara], Assam, India; No types known. Information on type locality see Britz 2019:44].— Afghanistan synonyms: Cyprinus terio Hamilton, 1822 .—Revisions: Pethiyagoda et al. (2012: 73).—Illustration: Britz (2019: pl. 183).

Status in Afghanistan. First record from Afghanistan by Coad (2014: 196); confirmed by Coad (2015: 228).— Afghanistan materials: CMN.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Kabul River.—General distribution: South Asia: Ganges River basin ( India, Nepal, Bangladesh and? Myanmar).—Habitat: It inhabits rivers, canals, ponds, ditches, and inundated fields over a silt and mud substrate. The females are more robust when mature. Freshwater.

Economic importance. Valuable for the aquarium trade.

Conservation. Conservation status in Afghanistan: Unknown.—IUCN: LC ( Dahanukar 2010e).—Threats: There are no known threats to the species.—Low sensitivity to human activities.—Not considered as a keystone species.—Decline status: Unknown.—Low priority for conservation action.