Fishes of Afghanistan; a revised and updated annotated checklist
Author
Çiçek, Erdoğan
Author
Fricke, Ronald
0000-0003-1476-6990
Author
Eagderi, Soheil
0000-0002-1134-0356
Author
Sungur, Sevil
0000-0003-4018-6375
Author
Coad, Brian W
0000-0002-7232-961X
Author
Hamdard, Mohammad Hamid
0000-0002-5915-6574
erdogancicek@nevsehir.edu.tr
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-06-16
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Puntius terio
(
Hamilton, 1822
)
[N]—Onespot Barb
Taxonomy.
Original description:
Cyprinus terio
Hamilton, 1822: 313
, 389 [Brahmaputra River, at Gualpara [Goalpara],
Assam
,
India
; No
types
known. Information on
type
locality see
Britz 2019:44
].—
Afghanistan
synonyms:
Cyprinus terio
Hamilton, 1822
.—Revisions:
Pethiyagoda
et al.
(2012: 73)
.—Illustration:
Britz (2019
: pl. 183).
Status in
Afghanistan
.
First record from Afghanistan by
Coad (2014: 196)
; confirmed by
Coad (2015: 228)
.— Afghanistan materials: CMN.
Distribution and habitat.
Distribution in
Afghanistan
:
Kabul
River.—General distribution: South Asia: Ganges River basin (
India
,
Nepal
,
Bangladesh
and?
Myanmar
).—Habitat: It inhabits rivers, canals, ponds, ditches, and inundated fields over a silt and mud substrate. The females are more robust when mature. Freshwater.
Economic importance.
Valuable for the aquarium trade.
Conservation.
Conservation status in
Afghanistan
: Unknown.—IUCN: LC (
Dahanukar 2010e
).—Threats: There are no known threats to the species.—Low sensitivity to human activities.—Not considered as a keystone species.—Decline status: Unknown.—Low priority for conservation action.