Carasobarbus sublimus (Coad and Najafpour, 1997)

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Carasobarbus sublimus (Coad and Najafpour, 1997) – Endemic ( Fig. 101)

Barbus sublimus Coad [B. W.] & Najafpour [N.] 1997: 274; Type locality: A’la River at Pol-e Tighen, 31°23.5'N, 49°53'E, Khuzestan Province, Iran. Holotype: CMNFI 1995–0009. Paratypes: CMNFI 1995–0009A (1), 1995–0010 (1), 1995–0011 (3).

Common name: Pr: Hemri, Zangol, En: Persian kiss-lip himri.

Diagnosis: Low counts of lateral line scales (24– 27) and fleshy lips.

Meristic characters: D: IV 10–11 (10), A: III 6, P: 14–5, V: 8, GR: 10–15, LL: 24–27, TV: 37–38.

Distribution: Tigris basin ( Fig. 102). Found in, Seymareh, A’la, Zohre and Fahlian Rivers.

Taxonomy: Coad (1982) placed it in Barbus, Esmaeili et al. (2010) placed it in Kosswigobarbus , and Borkenhagen et al. (2011) transferred it to Carasobarbus .

Conservation: IUCN: Not Evaluated, PC: Vulnerable B2ab(i,ii,iii,iv). This species is generally relatively unknown. In our extensive sampling efforts over the last 10 years, four have been caught from Dez Damn (in 2008), three from Karun Damn (in 2008), one from Seimareh River (in 2012) and five from Zohreh River (in 2016). Rare records from other colleagues are also based usually on few widespread samples. There is no recent record of the species from Turkey or Syria, but only from south west Iran and north east Iraq. Hence, we think that the species occurs in fewer than five highly fragmented localities, the area of occupancy (AOO) is less than 2,000 km ², and its populations are decreasing (probably owing to drought and pollution). Therefore, we classified it as Vulnerable B2ab(i,ii,iii,iv).