Fig. 4 in Fig. 4 in Fig. 3 in Fig. 21. Sesarmops mora n in Paralbunea dayriti Author Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Alborz, Iran. E-mail: jouladehroudbar @ ut. ac. ir jouladehroudbar@ut.ac.ir Author Ghanavi, Hamid Reza Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. * Correspondence: E-mail: hamid. ghanavi @ gmail. com (Ghanavi) hamid.ghanavi@gmail.com Author Doadrio, Ignacio Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology Department, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, Madrid, Spain. E-mail: doadrio @ mncn. csic. es doadrio@mncn.csic.es text Zoological Studies 2020 2020-06-29 59 21 1 303 http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12822535 journal article 10.6620/ZS.2020.59-21 1810-522X 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. Fig. 185. Pseudorasbora parva . Photograph from Shafarud River, Caspian Sea basin. Conservation : IUCN: Least Concern (Freyhof 2014ac).