Journal:
:iranian journal of ichthyology
0
hamid ghasemi eastern azerbaijan agriculture and natural resources research center, p.o. box: 53555-141 tabriz, iran.
arash jouladeh roudbar department of fisheries, faculty of natural resources, sari university of agricultural sciences and natural resources, sari, iran.
soheil eagderi department of fisheries, faculty of natural resources, university of tehran, karaj, iran.
keivan abbasi aquatic ecology department of the inland water aquaculture research center, p.o. box 66, bandar anzali, iran.
saber vatandoust department of fisheries, babol branch of islamic azad university, mazandaran, iran.
hamid reza esmaeili department of biology, college of sciences, shiraz university, shiraz, 71454–iran.
fish biodiversity investigation in urmia basin which is a part of irano-anatolian hot spot aimed to determine the state of fish in this endorheic basin. based on the obtained results, freshwater fish species of the urmia basin comprise 29 species in 25 genera, 7 families, 5 orders and one class. the most diverse order is the cypriniformes with 23 species (79.31%) followed by salmoniformes and p...