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 Clupeonella caspia Svetovidov, 1941 – Native ( Fig. 39 ) Clupeonella delicatula caspia Svetovidov [A. N.] 1941: 808; Type locality: Volga Delta, Russia , Caspian Sea. Lectotype : ZIN 15883 ( 152 mm , jar not found in 1996). Paralectotypes : ZIN 15883 ( 5 juv. ). Common name : Pr: Rizeh kuli, kilka-e-maamooli, En: Common shad Caspian sprat, Black Sea Sprat. Diagnosis : A moderately deep body, depth of caudal peduncle, a short and wide head, a sharply keeled belly, and pointed pectoral fin tips. Meristic characters : D: III–IV (III) 11–14, A: I– III (III) 14–19, GR: 51–62, LL: 42–55, TV: 40–44. Distribution : Caspian Sea basin ( Fig. 40 ). More common in the central and parts Southern of Caspian Sea. Taxonomy : Kozlovsky in Hoestlandt (1991) classified as a subspecies of Clupeonella cultriventris also Bogutskaya and Naseka (2004) also considered it a synonym of Clupeonella cultriventris , but Kottelat and Freyhof (2007) consider this subspecies to be a distinct species found in the Caspian Sea with cultriventris restricted to the Black Sea, and they give Clupeonella caspia full species rank. Conservation : IUCN: Least Concern ( Freyhof and Kottelat 2008m ).