Pimephales promelas Rafinesque, 1820

Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), Zootaxa 5402 (1), pp. 1-99 : 64

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C71929-D36C-FFE5-97B0-14FB5742E276

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scientific name

Pimephales promelas Rafinesque, 1820
status

 

199. Pimephales promelas Rafinesque, 1820 View in CoL

Common name. Fathead minnow

Taxonomy. Original description: Pimephales promelas Rafinesque 1820: 299 [Pond near Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. A; holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown] .

Revisions. None.

Illustrations. None.

Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Namak Lake.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 447-Namak.

Status in Iran. [Exotic].—None.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: None.

Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).

Remarks. No recent report of this fish is available, its presence for Iran needs confirmation by specimen.

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