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 Alosa braschnikowii (Borodin, 1904) – Native ( Fig. 30 ) Clupea caspiopontica var. braschnikowi Borodin [N. A.] 1904: 180 [13]; Type locality: Near Fort Aleksandrovsk, middle Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan . Lectotype : ZIN 13051 ( 280 mm ). Paralectotypes : ZIN 13051 (7 of 8, with lectotype ). Clupea caspiopontica var. grimmi Borodin [N. A.] 1904: 180, 184; Type locality: Ashur-ade, near Astrabad Bay, Caspian Sea, Iran . Lectotype : ZIN 13045 ( 34 cm ). Paralectotypes : ZIN 13045 (5 of 6, with lectotype ). Caspialosa brashnikovi autumnalis Berg [L. S.] 1915: 6; Type locality: Southern Caspian Sea. Syntypes : whereabouts unknown. Caspialosa kisselevitschi Bulgakov [G. P.] 1926: 37; Type locality: Gassan-Kuli, southern Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan . Syntypes : (62) whereabouts unknown. Caspialosa nirchi Morozov [A. V.] 1928: 72; Type locality: Krasnovodsk Bay, Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan . Syntypes : (many) whereabouts unknown. Caspialosa brashnikovi agrachanica Mikhailovsky [ A. A. ] 1941: 563; Type locality: Region of islands Tyulenyi and Dargui, northern Caspian Sea. Neotype : ZIN 17334 . Original syntypes : ZIN 1182–1199 (not at ZIN). Caspialosa brashnikovi orientalis Mikhailovsky [A. A.] 1941: 560; Type locality: Near Karadashly, E. coast of southern Caspian Sea. Lectotype : ZIN 32187. Paralectotypes : ZIN 32187 (15, with lectotype ). Caspialosa brashnikovi sarensis Mikhailovsky [A. A.] 1941: 564; Type locality: Sara Island, Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan . Lectotype : ZIN 32184. Paralectotypes : ZIN 31284 (19, with lectotype ), 32185 (26), 37475 (10), 38074–75 (25, 24). Common name : Pr: Shagmahi, Shagmahi-ye Khazari, En: Kura herring, Striped herring. Diagnosis : A relatively elongate and rounded body, more “herring-like” than “shad-like”. Gill rakers thick and large, shorter, equal to (or a little longer than) gill filaments, either straight or curved, pointed or blunt, occasionally even bifurcated at tips. Teeth present in both jaws and well-developed. Other Caspian shads have deeper, more shad-like bodies. Meristic characters : D: III 12–15 (14), A: II–IV (III) 10–20 (18), GR: 24–47 (30–33), LL: 51–54, TV: 48–55. Distribution : Caspian Sea basin ( Fig. 31 ). Reported from throughout the Caspian Sea. Mostly distributed in the south during winter, and moves north to spawn in spring. Taxonomy . Conservation : IUCN: Not Evaluated; PC: Least Concern. Widespread species without any known major threat. Dam constructions in the Caspian Sea basin probably affect the access to some of their spawning grounds.