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sublimus (Coad &amp; Najafpour, 1997)
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<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Barbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Barbus sublimus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sublimus">Barbus sublimus</taxonomicName>
<bibRefCitation author="Coad, BW" journalOrPublisher="Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" pagination="273 - 278" title="Barbus sublimus, a new species of cyprinid fish from Khuzestan Province, Iran." volume="7" year="1997">Coad and Najafpour 1997</bibRefCitation>
: 274.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="36" pageNumber="37" type="material">
<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Material.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
Type material. Holotype of
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Barbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Barbus sublimus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sublimus">Barbus sublimus</taxonomicName>
: CMNFI 1995-0009, Iran,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Rūdkhāneh-ye">Rūdkhaneh-ye</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Alā">A'la</normalizedToken>
near Pol-e
<normalizedToken originalValue="Tīghen">Tīghen</normalizedToken>
(
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="31.391666">31°23'30&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="49.883335">49°53'0&quot;E</geoCoordinate>
), B. W. Coad et al., 20 Sep 1995, not examined.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
Paratypes of
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Barbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Barbus sublimus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sublimus">Barbus sublimus</taxonomicName>
: CMNFI 95-0009a, 1, same data as holotype. - CMNFI 95-0010, 1, same data as holotype, not examined. - CMNFI 95-0011, 3, Iran,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Rūdkhāneh-ye">Rūdkhaneh-ye</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Alā">A'la</normalizedToken>
near Pol-e
<normalizedToken originalValue="Tīghen">Tīghen</normalizedToken>
(
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="31.391666">31°23'30&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="49.883335">49°53'0&quot;E</geoCoordinate>
), G. Eskanderi, Dec 1994, only one specimen examined.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
Non-type material.
<normalizedToken originalValue="Rūdkhāneh-ye">Rūdkhaneh-ye</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kashgān">Kashgan</normalizedToken>
. CMNFI 79-0277, 1, Iran,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Rūdkhāneh-ye">Rūdkhaneh-ye</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kashgān">Kashgan</normalizedToken>
at Harpul Kashkow, 50 km from
<normalizedToken originalValue="Khorramābād">Khorramabad</normalizedToken>
(
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="33.5">33°30'0&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="47.99167">47°59'30&quot;E</geoCoordinate>
), K. Evans and H. Assadi, 5 Jul 1977.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
<normalizedToken originalValue="Rūdkhāneh-ye">Rūdkhaneh-ye</normalizedToken>
Zohreh drainage. ZM-CBSU 5781-5786, 6, Iran,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Rūdkhāneh-ye">Rūdkhaneh-ye</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Fahlīān">Fahlīan</normalizedToken>
at
<normalizedToken originalValue="Nūrābād">Nūrabad</normalizedToken>
[
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="30.114166">30°6'51&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="51.521667">51°31'18&quot;E</geoCoordinate>
], H. R. Esmaeili et al. - SMF 33117, 3, Iran,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Rūdkhāneh-ye">Rūdkhaneh-ye</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Fahlīān">Fahlīan</normalizedToken>
(
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="30.18611">30°11'10&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="51.520554">51°31'14&quot;E</geoCoordinate>
), K. Borkenhagen et al., 29 Nov 2007. - SMF 33118, 6, Iran,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Rūdkhāneh-ye">Rūdkhaneh-ye</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Fahlīān">Fahlīan</normalizedToken>
(
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="30.185833">30°11'9&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="51.520832">51°31'15&quot;E</geoCoordinate>
), N. Alwan et al., 29 Feb 2008.
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<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Two pairs of barbels; 27 to 29 scales in the lateral line, 12 scales around the least circumference of the caudal peduncle; last unbranched dorsal-fin ray about as long as the head; mouth narrow, lower jaw spatulate and median lobe present on lower lip.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">A nuchal hump is not developed. The maximum body depth is at the anterior end of the dorsal fin base. The ventral profile of the head is almost straight; the dorsal profile is convex and evenly curved (Figs 26, 27). The maximum body depth is greater than the head length (Fig. 12). The mouth is inferior, narrow, the lips are thick and the lower jaw is spatulate with a horny sheath and a median lobe on the lower lip. The two pairs of barbels (Table 2) are well developed. The eyes are at the posterior end of the anterior half of the head. Some morphometric characters are summarised in Table 1.</paragraph>
<caption pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
Figure 26.
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus sublimus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sublimus">Carasobarbus sublimus</taxonomicName>
, paratype (CMNFI 95-0011) from
<normalizedToken originalValue="Rūdkhāneh-ye">Rūdkhaneh-ye</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Alā">A'la</normalizedToken>
, photo S.
<normalizedToken originalValue="Tränkner">Traenkner</normalizedToken>
.
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</caption>
<caption pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
Figure 27.
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus sublimus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sublimus">Carasobarbus sublimus</taxonomicName>
, live specimen from
<normalizedToken originalValue="Rūdkhāneh-ye">Rūdkhaneh-ye</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Fahlīān">Fahlīan</normalizedToken>
.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
The dorsal fin usually has four unbranched and nine or 10 branched rays (Table 3). The last unbranched ray of the dorsal fin is weakly ossified and about as long as the head (Fig. 4). The anal fin usually has three unbranched and six branched rays (Table 4) and its base is surrounded by a sheath of scales. Pectoral, ventral and anal fins are longer than in all other
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Carasobarbus</taxonomicName>
species (Table 1).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">There are 27 to 29 scales in the lateral line (Table 5), 4.5 or 5.5 scales above the lateral line (Table 6), 3.5 to 5.5 scales below the lateral line (Table 7) and 12 scales around the least circumference of the caudal peduncle (Table 8). The scales are shown in Fig. 5.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
The pharyngeal teeth count is 2.3.4-5.3.2, 2.3.4-5.3.1 or 3.3.4-4.3.3 (
<bibRefCitation author="Coad, BW" journalOrPublisher="Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" pagination="273 - 278" title="Barbus sublimus, a new species of cyprinid fish from Khuzestan Province, Iran." volume="7" year="1997">Coad and Najafpour 1997</bibRefCitation>
). The pharyngeal bones available were too small for photography but are very similar to those of
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus kosswigi" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kosswigi">Carasobarbus kosswigi</taxonomicName>
(Fig. 6).
</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="37" lastPageNumber="38" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
Live specimens from
<normalizedToken originalValue="Rūdkhāneh-ye">Rūdkhaneh-ye</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Fahlīān">Fahlīan</normalizedToken>
are silvery with hyaline fins (Fig. 27). Live specimens from
<normalizedToken originalValue="Rūdkhāneh-ye">Rūdkhaneh-ye</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Alā">A'la</normalizedToken>
are silvery with a slightly darker back, the
<pageBreakToken pageId="37" pageNumber="38" start="start">scales</pageBreakToken>
have dark pigments on their hind margin; pectoral, ventral and anal fins have a yellow to orange hue, which is most obvious with fins folded back; dorsal and caudal fins are grey or hyaline (
<bibRefCitation author="Coad, BW" journalOrPublisher="Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" pagination="273 - 278" title="Barbus sublimus, a new species of cyprinid fish from Khuzestan Province, Iran." volume="7" year="1997">Coad and Najafpour 1997</bibRefCitation>
). Ethanol-preserved specimens are yellowish brown with a somewhat darker back and juveniles have a dark spot on the sides of the caudal peduncle.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="37" pageNumber="38">
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus sublimus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sublimus">Carasobarbus sublimus</taxonomicName>
differs from all congeners, except
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus kosswigi" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kosswigi">Carasobarbus kosswigi</taxonomicName>
, by having a spatulate lower jaw with a median lobe on the lower lip vs. a crescent shaped lower jaw and a lower lip without median lobe. It differs from
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus kosswigi" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kosswigi">Carasobarbus kosswigi</taxonomicName>
by having 27 to 29 scales in the lateral line vs. 32 to 38 and modally 12 scales around the least circumference of the caudal peduncle vs. 14 and by having a shorter and less ossified unbranched last dorsal-fin ray.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="37" pageNumber="38" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="37" pageNumber="38">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="37" pageNumber="38">
This species is known from
<normalizedToken originalValue="Rūdkhāneh-ye">Rūdkhaneh-ye</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Alā">A'la</normalizedToken>
,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Rūdkhāneh-ye">Rūdkhaneh-ye</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Fahlīān">Fahlīan</normalizedToken>
and possibly
<normalizedToken originalValue="Rūdkhāneh-ye">Rūdkhaneh-ye</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kashgān">Kashgan</normalizedToken>
(see discussion) in south-western Iran (Fig. 7).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="38" pageNumber="39" type="habitats and biology">
<paragraph pageId="38" pageNumber="39">
<pageBreakToken pageId="38" pageNumber="39" start="start">Habitats</pageBreakToken>
and biology.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="38" pageNumber="39">
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus sublimus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sublimus">Carasobarbus sublimus</taxonomicName>
is adapted to streams with fast currents with water flowing over hard substrate (
<bibRefCitation author="Coad, BW" journalOrPublisher="Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" pagination="273 - 278" title="Barbus sublimus, a new species of cyprinid fish from Khuzestan Province, Iran." volume="7" year="1997">Coad and Najafpour 1997</bibRefCitation>
). The biggest specimen known has a SL of 115 mm (
<bibRefCitation author="Coad, BW" journalOrPublisher="Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" pagination="273 - 278" title="Barbus sublimus, a new species of cyprinid fish from Khuzestan Province, Iran." volume="7" year="1997">Coad and Najafpour 1997</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="38" pageNumber="39" type="conservation status">
<paragraph pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Conservation status.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="38" pageNumber="39">
Little is known about the conservation status of
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus sublimus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sublimus">Carasobarbus sublimus</taxonomicName>
, but because this species is dependent on fast-flowing water, it is probably impacted by the construction of dams.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="38" pageNumber="39" type="discussion">
<paragraph pageId="38" pageNumber="39">Discussion.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="38" pageNumber="39">
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus sublimus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sublimus">Carasobarbus sublimus</taxonomicName>
was described in the genus
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Barbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Barbus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Barbus</taxonomicName>
and aligned with
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus apoensis" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="apoensis">Carasobarbus apoensis</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus canis" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="canis">Carasobarbus canis</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus chantrei" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="chantrei">Carasobarbus chantrei</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus exulatus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="exulatus">Carasobarbus exulatus</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus kosswigi" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kosswigi">Carasobarbus kosswigi</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus luteus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="luteus">Carasobarbus luteus</taxonomicName>
in the original description (
<bibRefCitation author="Coad, BW" journalOrPublisher="Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" pagination="273 - 278" title="Barbus sublimus, a new species of cyprinid fish from Khuzestan Province, Iran." volume="7" year="1997">Coad and Najafpour 1997</bibRefCitation>
). Coad recommends the use of the genus
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Kosswigobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Kosswigobarbus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Kosswigobarbus</taxonomicName>
for this species (
<bibRefCitation author="Coad, BW" journalOrPublisher="Zoology in the Middle East" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" title="Freshwater Fishes of Iran" url="http://www.briancoad.com" year="2011">Coad 2011</bibRefCitation>
). It was transferred to
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Carasobarbus</taxonomicName>
, based on morphological characters and close genetic relationship (
<bibRefCitation author="Borkenhagen, K" journalOrPublisher="Environmental Biology of Fishes" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" pagination="327 - 335" title="The molecular systematics of the Carasobarbus species from Iran and adjacent areas, with comments on Carasobarbus albus (Heckel, 1843)." url="10.1007/s10641-011-9787-1" volume="91" year="2011">Borkenhagen et al. 2011</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="38" pageNumber="39">
Locality data for CMNFI 79-0277 is not beyond doubt, because this lot was mentioned as
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus kosswigi" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kosswigi">Carasobarbus kosswigi</taxonomicName>
in the original description of
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus sublimus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sublimus">Carasobarbus sublimus</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Coad, BW" journalOrPublisher="Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" pagination="273 - 278" title="Barbus sublimus, a new species of cyprinid fish from Khuzestan Province, Iran." volume="7" year="1997">Coad and Najafpour 1997</bibRefCitation>
). According to morphometric and meristic characters (scales in lateral line, above lateral line and around the least circumference of the caudal peduncle; length of dorsal, pectoral, ventral and anal fin) this specimen is within the range of
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus sublimus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sublimus">Carasobarbus sublimus</taxonomicName>
and outside the range of
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus kosswigi" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kosswigi">Carasobarbus kosswigi</taxonomicName>
. It might be an aberrant specimen or it might have been accidentally swaped with CMNFI 1995-0010 (a specimen of similar size from the same locality as the types of
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus sublimus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sublimus">Carasobarbus sublimus</taxonomicName>
). We had no opportunity to examine CMNFI 1995-0010. Though we think it is unlikely that
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus kosswigi" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kosswigi">Carasobarbus kosswigi</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus sublimus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sublimus">Carasobarbus sublimus</taxonomicName>
occur sympatrically, for the time being we consider it to be a possible record of
<taxonomicName class="Actinopterygii" family="Cyprinidae" genus="Carasobarbus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carasobarbus sublimus" order="Cypriniformes" pageId="38" pageNumber="39" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sublimus">Carasobarbus sublimus</taxonomicName>
from the
<normalizedToken originalValue="Rūdkhāneh-ye">Rūdkhaneh-ye</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kashgān">Kashgan</normalizedToken>
.
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