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 71. Paraschistura turcomana (Nikolskii, 1947) Common name. Murgab loach Taxonomy. Original description: Nemacheilus kessleri turcomanus Nikolskii, 1947: 32 , fig. 3 [Kushka River near town of Kushka, Murgab River basin, Turkmenistan ; syntypes : ZMMU P-5734 (3), P-5735 (1)] . Revisions. Kottelat (2012: 102). Illustrations. Nikolskii (1947: fig. 3) as Nemacheilus kessleri turcomanus . Distribution in Iran . —Distribution in River Basin: Hari River.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 450-Turan Plain, 630-Middle Amu Darya. Status in Iran . [Native].—Loch-e Torkamani.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022) .—Iran material: ZM-CBSU. Conservation. —IUCN: NE. Remarks. Nemacheilus kessleri turcomanus Nikolskii 1947 is a synonym according to Freyhof et al. (2015), but Mousavi-Sabet et al. (2015) consider it as valid species of P . turcomana . Coad (1995) placed turcomana in Noemacheilus kessleri as subspecies, Kottelat (2012) regard as full species and transferred to Paraschistura . Morphological characters of this species, not diagnostic and most of them overlap with P . turcomanica so Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) suggested the validity of this species should be examined by molecular markers.