paraschistura alta , formerly reported from the eastern part of sistan basin in afghanistan, is reported for the first time from the zahak river in iranian part of this basin and its morphological characteristics, coi barcode and its phylogenetic relationship within other members of the genus paraschistura from iran are provided. all the measured meristic and morphometric characters of seven co...

paraschistura ilamensis , new species, is described from the tigris river drainage, iran. it is distinguished from other species of paraschistura in iran by a combination of the following characters: emarginate caudal fin, stout, deep and scaled body, deep caudal peduncle, 7-10 irregular and interrupted vertical pale brown bars on flanks, two obvious dark spots on the upper and lower caudal fin...

paraschistura prokofiev, 2009 is a newly described genus based on osteological characters, but detailed information for all species of the genus is not available. to describe osteological characteristics of the endemic species of paraschistura nielseni , twelve specimens were collected from the shapur river of persis basin which drains to the persian gulf and their osteological characteristics ...

Iranocichla persasp. n. is described from the Shur, Hasanlangi and Minab River drainages flowing into the Persian Gulf at the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran. It is distinguished from Iranocichla hormuzensis, from the Mehran River drainage, by nuptial males having a bright orange breast and lower part of the head (vs. black), a poorly developed or invisible (vs. distinctive) "Tilapia-mark" in...

khorasan-e-razavi province in the northeast of iran possesses varied climatic and geographical conditions that lead to a rich biodiversity. an investigation on the status of the fish fauna was carried out from march to october 2013. a total of 401 specimens was collected and identified, from 30 localities among seven counties in this province. sampling was performed using hand net, cast net and...

the aim of this study was to access the genetic differentiation of paraschistura sp. in kheirabad and brim rivers (zohreh river system, persian gulf basin), iran. for this purpose, 60 samples including 30 male and 30 female samples from each river were collected. a total of six microsatellite loci (bbar4, bbar7, ic228, ic230, ic434 and ic720) were used and all of them showed high polymorphism (...

formerly the turkmenian stone loach was the only member of the genus metaschistura based on osteological characters. but recently, it is placed in the genus paraschistura based on mtdna coi data. to provide a detailed description of the osteological characteristics of paraschistura cristata (berg 1898), ten specimens of p. cristata were collected from the hari river basin in iran and their oste...