Paraschistura cristata ( Berg, 1898 )

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 : 12

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scientific name

Paraschistura cristata ( Berg, 1898 )
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Paraschistura cristata ( Berg, 1898) View in CoL View at ENA

[N] — Crested loach

Taxonomy. Original description: Nemacheilus cristatus Berg 1898: 19 View in CoL [5], fig. [Tedzhen River near Ashgabat (Askhabad), Turkmenistan; syntypes: ISBR 996 (2), ZIN 11055 (1), ZMMU P-2555 (59)].— Afghanistan synonyms: Synonym: Nemacheilus cristatus Berg, 1898 View in CoL ; Noemacheilus cristatus Berg, 1898 View in CoL ; Schistura cristata ( Berg, 1898) View in CoL ; Metaschistura cristata ( Berg, 1898) View in CoL .—Revisions: Berg (1949: 886) as Nemachilus cristatus . Prokofiev (2009: 893) as Metaschistura cristata, Freyhof et al. (2015: 10) View in CoL .—Illustration: Berg (1949: 886, fig. 36) as Nemachilus cristatus, Freyhof et al. (2015 : figs. 6–8).

Status in Afghanistan. First record from Afghanistan by Berg (1948 – 1949) as Nemacheilus (Paracobitis) cristatus ; Banarescu and Nalbant (1966); confirmed by Coad (1981: 14; 2014: 246 as Metaschistura cristata ; 2015: 229).—Afghanistan materials: ZMUC.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Tedzhen River, Murgab River, Harirud and Helmand River drainages.—General distribution: Middle East, North Asia and South Asia: Hari River basin ( Iran, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan).—Habitat: This species occurs in streams with moderately to fast flowing freshwater in both mountainous and lowlands. Freshwater.

Economic importance. No commercial importance.

Conservation. Conservation status in Afghanistan: Unknown.—IUCN: NE (2023).—Threats: Unknown.— Moderate sensitivity to human activities.—Keystone species.—Decline status: Unknown.—Moderate priority for conservation action.

Banarescu, P. M. & Nalbant, T. T. (1966) The 3 rd Danish Expedition to central Asia. Zoological results 34. Cobitidae (Pisces) from Afghanistan and Iran. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, KjObenhavn, 129, 149 - 186.

Berg, L. S. (1898) On the fish-fauna of Asiatic Russia. I. Fishes of the Trans-Caspian region collected by P. A. Varentzov. Dnevnik Zoologischeskogo Otdeleniya Obshchestva i Zoologichesko-go Muzeya Moscovskogo Universiteta, 2 (7), 14 - 20.

Berg, L. S. (1948) s. n. In: Ryby presnych vod SSSR i sopredelnych stan. [Freshwater fishes of the U. S. S. R. and adjacent countries]. Vol. 1. 4 th Edition. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR. [Guide to the fauna of the U. S. S. R.], Moskva. Freshwater fishes of the U. S. S. R. and adjacent countries No. 27. Russian Academy of Sciences, USSR, Moskva, 466 pp. [in Russian. English translation available, Israel Prog. Sci. Transl., Jerusalem, 1962, 504 pp.]

Berg, L. S. (1949) s. n. In: Ryby presnych vod SSSR i sopredelnych stan. [Freshwater fishes of the U. S. S. R. and adjacent countries]. Vol. 2. 4 th Edition. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR. [Guide to the Fauna of the U. S. S. R.], Moskva. Freshwater fishes of the U. S. S. R. and adjacent countries No. 29. Russian Academy of Sciences, USSR, Moskva, pp. 467 - 925. [in Russian, English translation appeared in Israel Program of Scientific Translation, Jerusalem, 1964, 496 pp.]

Coad, B. W. (1981) Fishes of Afghanistan, an annoted checklist. National Museum of Canada Publications in Zoology, 14, i - v + 1 - 26.

Coad, B. W. (2014) Fishes of Afghanistan. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow. 393 pp.

Freyhof, J., Sayyadzadeh, G., Esmaeili, H. R. & Geiger, M. (2015) Review of the genus Paraschistura from Iran with description of six new species (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 26 (2), 1 - 48.

Prokofiev, A. M. (2009) Problems of the classification and phylogeny of Nemacheiline loaches of the group lacking the preethmoid I (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae: Nemacheilinae). Journal of Ichthyology, 49 (10), 874 - 898. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / S 0032945209100051

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Nemacheilidae

Genus

Paraschistura