Acanthobrama
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Acanthobrama telavivensis |
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| Heckel , 1843 |
Acanthobrama is a genus of freshwater fish within the carp family (Cyprinidae). It occurs in Anatolia , in the Levant , in the catchment area of the Euphrates and Tigris and in Iran .
features
Acanthobrama - species are 10 to 29 cm long and have relatively squat a laterally only slightly flattened body. The mouth is terminal or below and without barbels . The pharynx are arranged in a row. On the lower branch of the first gill arch there are 7 to 22 gill rakes . The last unbranched ray of the dorsal fin is smooth, thickened and ossified towards the trunk. Behind it there are 7 to 9 branched soft rays. The anal fin is long. The number of their branched soft rays is 9 to 21. There are 49 to 108 scales along the sideline . Characteristic of the genus is a ventral keel formed by two rows of scales between the base of the pelvic fins and the anus. The scales of the two rows can touch in the middle or leave a strip of unscaled skin exposed.
species
Fishbase currently (November 2017) lists eleven species in the genus:
- Acanthobrama centisquama Heckel, 1843
- Acanthobrama hadiyahensis Coad, Alkahem & Behnke, 1983
- Acanthobrama lissneri Tortonese, 1952
- Acanthobrama marmid Heckel, 1843
- Acanthobrama microlepis (De Filippi, 1863)
- Acanthobrama orontis Berg, 1949
- Acanthobrama persidis (Coad, 1981)
- Acanthobrama telavivensis Goren, Fishelson & Trewavas, 1973
- Acanthobrama thisbeae Freyhof & Özulug, 2014
- Acanthobrama tricolor Lortet, 1883
- Acanthobrama urmianus (Günther, 1899)
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedhelm Krupp, Wolfgang Schneider: The fishes of Jordan River drainage Basin and Azraq Oasis. January 1989, Fauna of Saudi Arabia, v. 10; pp. 347-416 (1989), p. 354.
- ↑ Acanthobrama on Fishbase.org (English)
