Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022) Author Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz 0000-0003-0758-6502 Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Lorestan University, 6815144316 Khorramabad, Iran. g. sayyadzadeh 92 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0758 - 6502 g.sayyadzadeh92@gmail.com Author Esmaeili, Hamid Reza 0000-0002-9736-397X Ichthyology and Molecular Systematics Research Laboratory, Zoology Section, Department of Biology, School of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. hresmaeili @ shirazu. ac. ir; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9736 - 397 X * Corresponding authors & Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Lorestan University, 6815144316 Khorramabad, Iran. g. sayyadzadeh 92 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0758 - 6502 hresmaeili@shirazu.ac.ir text Zootaxa 2024 2024-01-17 5402 1 1 99 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1 1175-5334 10524097 F8A2EFAB-C50C-400B-AE24-0684EF47F39D 32. Oxynoemacheilus brandtii (Kessler, 1877) Common name. Kura loach Taxonomy. Original description: Nemachilus brandtii Kessler, 1877: 174 , pl. 6 (fig. 23) [Upper Kura River at Tbilis , Georgia , Eurasia; syntypes : (5) BMNH 1897.7 .5.39 [ex ZIN ] (1) Tiflis , ZIN 2923 (4, lost in 1924)] . Revisions. None. Illustrations. Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020:163 , fig. 300). Distribution in Iran . —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea, Lake Orumiyeh.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 445-Orumiyeh. Status in Iran . [Native].—Loch mahi-e Kora.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al . (2017 a , 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022) .—Iran material: ZM-CBSU. Conservation. —IUCN: LC.