Amblypharyngodon mola ( 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 : 30

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5305.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8097220

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scientific name

Amblypharyngodon mola ( Hamilton, 1822 )
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Amblypharyngodon mola ( Hamilton, 1822) View in CoL View at ENA

[N]—Mola carplet

Taxonomy. Original description: Cyprinus mola Hamilton, 1822: 334 View in CoL , 392, pl. 38, fig. 92 (Gangetic provinces; no types preserved].— Afghanistan synonyms: Mola View in CoL buchanani Blyth, 1860; Leuciscus chitul Sykes, 1839 ; Amblypharyngodon gadigarhi Malhotra & Dutta, 1975 View in CoL ; Rhodeus macrocephalus Jerdon, 1849 ; Leuciscus pellucidus McClelland, 1839 View in CoL ; Amblypharyngodon saranensis Chaudhuri, 1912 View in CoL .—Revisions: None.— Illustration: Britz (2019: pl. 203).

Status in Afghanistan. First record from Afghanistan by McClelland (1842) as Leuciscus mola ; confirmed by Coad (1981: 9; 2014: 121; 2015: 227).—Afghanistan materials: None.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Kabul River.—General distribution: South Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar.—Habitat: This species lives in all freshwater bodies. Freshwater.

Economic importance. No commercial importance.

Conservation. Conservation status in Afghanistan: Unknown.—IUCN: LC ( Chaudhry 2010c).—Threats: No information to suggest risk.—Low sensitivity to human activities.—Not considered as a keystone species.— Decline status: Stable.—Low priority for conservation action.

Britz, R. (2019) Francis Hamilton's Gangetic Fishes in colour. A new edition of the 1822 monograph, with reproductions of unpublished coloured illustrations. Ray Society, London, 48 + vii + 405 + vii pp., 228 pls.

Chaudhry, S. (2010 c) Amblypharyngodon mola. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2010, e. T 166521 A 6227212. https: // doi. org / 10.2305 / IUCN. UK. 2010 - 4. RLTS. T 166521 A 6227212. en

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.

Hamilton, F. (1822) An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. Printed for A. Constable and company, Edinburgh and London, vii + 405 pp., pls. 1 - 39. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 59540

McClelland, J. (1839) Indian Cyprinidae. Asiatic Researches, 19 (2), 217 - 471, pls. 37 - 61.

McClelland, J. (1842) On the fresh-water fishes collected by William Griffith, Esq., F. L. S. Madras Medical Service, during his travels under the orders of the Supreme Government of India, from 1835 to 1842. Calcutta Journal of Natural History, 2 (8), 560 - 589, pls. 6 + 15 + 18 + 21.

Sykes, W. H. (1839) On the fishes of the Deccan. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1838 (6), 157 - 165. [for 27 November 1838] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1838. tb 01420. x

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Cyprinidae

SubFamily

Rasborinae

Genus

Amblypharyngodon