Cyprinion mhalense Alkahem & Behnke, 1983

Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, Zootaxa 5330 (2), pp. 201-226 : 208

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8253107

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC87BD-FFB8-0A26-80F4-FC57FD98FACA

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scientific name

Cyprinion mhalense Alkahem & Behnke, 1983
status

 

10. Cyprinion mhalense Alkahem & Behnke, 1983 ―Dawasir Lotak― Endemic

Taxonomy. Original description: Cyprinion mhalensis Alkahem & Behnke, 1983:556 View in CoL , fig. 6a [ Permanent stream in Wadi (Valley) Almhaleh , southeast Abha City, Saudi Arabia; Holotype: CSU coll. Arabia fishes No. 1]. Synonyms: None

Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Yemen in original description by Alkahem & Behnke (1983); confirmed by Krupp (1983), and Freyhof et al. (2020).

General distribution. Wadi ad-Dawasir drainage, Saudi Arabia. Habitat: freshwater.

Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Saudi Arabia: Wadis Ḩaḑramawt drainage, Turabah, Afrak, Shuqub, Buwah, Shumrukh, Noaman, and Habayaba ( Hamidan & Shobrak 2019; Freyhof et al. 2020).

Economic importance. Locally consumed, but of no commercial importance.

Conservation. Least Concern (LC).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Cyprinidae

SubFamily

Barbinae

Genus

Cyprinion

Loc

Cyprinion mhalense Alkahem & Behnke, 1983

Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat 2023
2023
Loc

Cyprinion mhalensis

Alkahem & Behnke 1983: 556
1983
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