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 12. Clupeonella cultriventris (Nordman, 1840) Common name. Black Sea sprat Taxonomy. Original description: Clupea cultriventris Nordman, 1840: 42 [Pont-Euxin (Black Sea); syntypes : MNHN 0000-3681 (3)] . Revisions. Whitehead (1985: 52) . Illustrations. Kottelat & Freyhof (2007: 76 , fig. as Clupeonella caspia ). Distribution in Iran . —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 450-Turan Plain, 452-Caspian Marine. Status in Iran . [Native].—Rizeh kuli, Kilka-e-maamooli.—Listed in the previous checklists by Esmaeili et al. (2018) ; Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) ; as Clupeonella caspia and by Eagderi et al. (2022) as Clupeonella cultriventris .—Iran materials: None. Conservation. —IUCN: LC. Remarks. Clupeonella cultriventris is widespread along coasts of the Black and Caspian Seas, entering lower reaches of rivers. Based on unpublished data (see Kuljanishvili et al. 2020 ) including molecular and morphological studies they failed to distinguish the Caspian population ( C . caspia ) from the Black Sea population ( C . cultriventris ). Hoestlandt (1991) followed by Kottelat & Freyhof (2007) separate them largely based on the length of paired fins, a character that found to be very much overlapping in the materials examined by Kuljanishvili et al. (2020) . Therefore, they treated C . caspia as a synonym of C . cultriventris .