Romanogobio macropterus (Kamensky, 1901)

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Romanogobio macropterus (Kamensky, 1901) –

Native

Gobio macropterus Kamensky [S. N.] 1901: 10 [German p. 146]; Type locality: Caucasus. Syntypes: (14) ZMT and Kharkov Univ.

Common name: Pr: Kapor kafzi Caspian, En: South Caucasian gudgeon.

Diagnosis: Usually 7 branched dorsal fin rays, a pale black spots on the dorsal and caudal fins and it only Romanogobio species in the Caspian Sea basin of Iran.

Meristic characters: D: III–IV 5–8, A: II–III 5–7, P: 11–16, V: 6–8, GR: 2–6, LL: 39–45, TV: 40–42.

Distribution: Caspian Sea basin ( Fig. 186). Reported from Aras River drainage.

Taxonomy: Berg (1949) synonymised with Gobio persus Naseka and Bogutskaya (1998) Synonymised with Romanogobio persus (Günther 1899) , but a valid subspecies, finally Naseka and Freyhof (2004) regard as full and valid species.

Conservation: IUCN: Least Concern (Freyhof

2014ac).