Sellal bleak

Sellal bleak
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Cypriniformes
Family:Cyprinidae
Subfamily:Alburninae
Genus:Alburnus
Species: A. sellal
Binomial name
Alburnus sellal
Heckel, 1843[2]
Synonyms[3][4]
  • Alburnus hebes Heckel, 1843
  • Alburnus microlepis Heckel, 1843
  • Alburnus pallidus Heckel, 1843
  • Alburnus mossulensis Heckel, 1843
  • Chalcalburnus sellal (Heckel, 1843)

The Sellal bleak (Alburnus sellal) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Alburnus. It can be found in the drainage basins of the Queiq River and the Tigris–Euphrates river system in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. A recent study has found that Alburnus mossulensis was probably a synonym of Alburnus sellal.[5]

References

  1. Freyhof, J. (2014). "Alburnus sellal". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2014: e.T19018860A19222803. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19018860A19222803.en. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Alburnus sellal" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
  3. "Alburnus sellal Heckel, 1843". Biolib.cz. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  4. William Eschmeyer, ed. (2017). "Species that contain: Alburnus and sellal". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  5. Tooba Mommadian-Kalat; Hamod Reza Esmaeli; Mansour Aliabadian; Jorg Freyhof (2017). "Re-description of Alburnus doriae, with comments on the taxonomic status of A. amirkabiri, A. mossulensis, A. sellal and Petroleuciscus esfahani (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)". Zootaxa. 4323 (4). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4323.4.3.


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