Alburnoides qanati

Alburnoides qanati

Taxonavigation: Cyprinoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cyprinoidei

Familia: Leuciscidae
Subfamilia: Leuciscinae
Genus: Alburnoides
Species: Alburnoides qanati

Name

Alburnoides qanati Coad & Bogutskaya, 2009

• Holotype: CMNFI 1977-0509.
• Paratypes: CMNFI 1977-0510 (178).

Type locality: At source and along stream of a qanat at Naqsh-e Rostam, Pulvar River system, 29°59'30"N, 52°54'00"E, Fars, Iran, elevation 1660 meters.

Etymology: of a qanat (an underground water channel), referring to habitat in which it was found, “now fast disappearing with the use of pump wells, and in recognition of the contribution to civilization made by the Iranian people through this innovative irrigation technique”. (From The ETYFish project)

References

• Coad, B.W. & Bogutskaya, N.G. 2009. Alburnoides qanati, a new species of cyprinid fish from southern Iran (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae). ZooKeys, 13: 67–77.PDF Reference page. 
• Mousavi-Sabet, H., Vatandoust, S. & Doadrio, I. 2015. Review of the genus Alburnoides Jeitteles, 1861 (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae) from Iran with description of three new species from the Caspian Sea and Kavir basins. Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences 13(4): 293–331.PDF Reference page. 

Links

• Alburnoides qanati in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Alburnoides qanati in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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