Freshwater fishes of Iraq: a revised and updated annotated checklist- 2023
Author
Çiçek, Erdoğan
Department of Biology, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Nevşehir Hacı BektaşVeli University, Nevşehir, Türkiye
Author
Jawad, Laith
School of Environmental and Animal Sciences, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
Author
Eagderi, Soheil
Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
Author
Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Ichthyology and Molecular Systematics Research Laboratory, Zoology Section, Department of Biology, School of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
Author
Mouludi-Saleh, Atta
Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
Author
Sungur, Sevil
Health Services Vocational School, Nevşehir Hacı BektaşVeli University, Nevşehir, Türkiye
Author
Fricke, Ronald
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-10-17
5357
1
1
49
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5357.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5357.1.1
1175-5326
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Terapon puta
Cuvier, 1829
[N]—Small-scaled terapon
Taxonomy.
Original description:
Terapon puta
Cuvier
in
Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1829: 148
[Visakhapatnam,
India
:
holotype
: Not known].—
Iraq
synonyms: None.—Revisions: Vari (1978: 262).—Illustration: Randall (1995: 152, fig.)
.
Status in
Iraq
.
First record from Iraq by
Mohamed & Abood (2017a)
.—Iraq materials: None.
Distribution and habitat.
Distribution in
Iraq
: Shatt al-Arab River.—General distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific:
South Africa
, East Africa, Persian Gulf, and
Madagascar
east to
Philippines
, south to
Western Australia
and
Queensland
(
Australia
); Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant).—Habitat: This species inhabits coastal and brackish waters. Freshwater, brackish, marine.
Economic importance.
Locally consumed, but of no commercial importance.
Conservation.
Conservation status in
Iraq
: Unknown.—IUCN: NE (2023).—Threats: Unknown.—Low sensitivity to human activities.—Not considered a keystone species.—Decline status: Unknown.—Low priority for conservation action.