Capoeta mandica Biaanco and Bănărescu, 1982

Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash, Ghanavi, Hamid Reza & Doadrio, Ignacio, 2020, Fig. 4 in Fig. 4 in Fig. 3 in Fig. 21. Sesarmops mora n in Paralbunea dayriti, Zoological Studies 59 (21), pp. 1-303 : 50-51

Capoeta mandica Biaanco and Bănărescu, 1982 – Endemic ( Fig. 83)

Capoeta barroisi mandica Bianco [P. G.] & Bănărescu [P. M.] 1982: 90; Type locality: Mond River, near Dasht-e-Arzhan, Persian Gulf basin, Iran. Holotype: IZA 7890. Paratypes: ISBB 3123 (5), IZA 7891 (orig. 95), NMC 82–366 (6).

Common name: Pr: Siyah mahi mond, En: Mond scraper.

Diagnosis: One set of barbels, last unbranched dorsal fin ray ossified, serrated and shorter than head length, commonly 8 branched dorsal fin rays, few black spots scattered on the dorsal and flank,12–13 between dorsal and lateral line and 8–10 scales between lateral line and anal fin.

Meristic characters: D: III–IV 7–8 (7), A: III 5, P: 16–18 (18), V: 8, GR: 23–27, LL: 58–68, TV: 43–45.

Distribution: Persis basin ( Fig. 84). Populations of this species occur in Qarah Aghaj and Rudbal River tributary of Mond River, in the Persis basin.

Taxonomy: Coad (1991) placed mandica in Capoeta barroisi Lortet 1894 as a subspecies but Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2015b) gave it the full species rank.

Conservation: IUCN: Not Evaluated, PC: Least Concern. This species is widespread in its distribution range and there is no widespread threat affecting it. This species is generally abundant in many parts of the Persis basin. We thus classified it as Least Concern.