. J. Ichthyol. (June 2019), 6(2): 92-97 Received: January 07, 2018 © 2019 Iranian Society of Ichthyology Accepted: June 14, 2019 P-ISSN: 2383-1561; E-ISSN: 2383-0964 doi: 10.22034/iji.v6i2.424 http://www.ijichthyol.org

Book Review

Fish Species Diversity of Fars, by Esmaeili H.R & Teimori A. 2016. 288 p. Fars Environment Department, ISBN: 978-600-04-5600-9

Ali Reza RADKHAH, Soheil EAGDERI*, Hadi POORBAGHER

Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran. *Email: [email protected] Abstract: , as one of the largest provinces in Iran, has a significant fresh water fish diversity. The present work aimed to review the book entitled “Fish Species Diversity of Fars”, published by Fars Environmental Protection Agency in 2016. In this book, a list of fish species has been described from Fars Province. It provides important information on the , morphological, biological, and ecological characteristics and conservation status of fish species. Hence, considering the rich content of this book, it is suggested for ichthyologist and others researches and students in fields of aquaculture, fisheries and biology. Keywords: Fars, Biodiversity, Biology, Distribution, Habitat. Citation: Radkhah, A.R.; Eagderi, S. & Poorbagher, H. 2019. Fish Species Diversity of Fars, by Esmaeili H.R & Teimori A. 2016. 288 p. Fars Environment Department, ISBN: 978-600- 04-5600-9. Iranian Journal of Ichthyology 6(2): 92-97.

Introduction (59.3%), Gobiiformes (14.1%), Biodiversity can be categorized into three levels viz. (6.4%) and genetic, species and ecosystem. This concept has (3.7%) are most diverse taxa of Iranian Inland waters, been drawn intentions of many researchers during respectively (Esmaeili et al. 2018). past two decades and so far several definitions have Fars is one of the largest and richest provinces in been presented for it (Mostafavi 2007). In this regard, Iran in terms of biodiversity due to its climatic and ichthyologists acknowledged importance of fish topographic diversity. It possesses a significant biodiversity in the managing water resources and numbers of mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians and aquatic species production (Radkhah et al. 2018). fishes that later one is reported to have approximately Climate change, drought, land use, habitat 60 species with Palearctic, Oriental and Ethiopian degradation, overfishing, and introduction of exotic origins. Previously some works have published species are the most important factors leading regarding the ichthyofauna of this province as biodiversity changes (Esmaeili et al. 2007; Radkhah research articles (e.g. Coad 1991, 1996; Coad & & Eagderi 2019). Iran is located in the southern Bogutskaya 2009), but recently a book entitled “Fish Palearctic biogeographic region bordering the Species Diversity of Fars” has been published by the Oriental and Ethiopian regions and is considered as Environmental Protection Agency of Fars Province. an exchange region for freshwater fishes (Esmaeili et This book, which consists of three chapters, was al. 2018; Coad 2019; Nasri et al. 2019). Several authored by Hamid Reza Esmaeili and Azad Teimori studies carried out on inland water fishes of Iran and in 2016. In this study, we try to survey and criticize latest work has listed 297 species in 109 genera and the various aspects of this book. 30 families that most of them has Palearctic origin. The book provides valuable and comprehensive Of these species, 95 species (32%) are native and 29 information on the freshwater fishes of Fars species (76.9%) are exotics. In addition, Province. The authors have tried to study their 92

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various aspects, including morphology, taxonomy, , Nemacheilidae and Cyprinodontidae biology, ecology, distribution, economical value and consist 46.6, 17.2 and 12.1% of the fish species of conservation significance. The first chapter starts Fars Province, respectively. Mehran sub-basins (with with definition of some concepts such as 7 species) and Kor River (with 27 species) are the biodiversity, habitat diversity, morphological poorest and richest basins in terms of richness, diversity, biodiversity threats and conservation. respectively. The Kor River, Heleh and Mond consist Then, the authors have provided comprehensive 37.50, 28.57 and 27.77% of endemic fishes. It should information on the natural geography of Fars also be noted that the Kor River basin also contains Province and its basins’ features. Based on the 45.83% of exotic species of the province with provided information, Fars Province has two Gambusia holbrooki having the highest distribution. endorheic basins, viz. Kor River and Maharlou, as The most prominent features of this book can be well as four exorheic endorheic basins namely Tigris listed as following: (1) using up-to-date references (Karoun), Zohreh (Fahlian), Persis (Mond and from recent researches mostly published by authors, Helleh) and Hormozgan/Hormuz (Kol River and (2) providing pictures of live fishes with habitats’ Mehran). Each of these basins has sub-basins that images that are attractive for readers, (3) written in have been explored in the book. simple and fluent language, (4) attention to the The second chapter describes the fish species of conservation status of fish species (such a data can be Fars Province. In this chapter, a list of species used for creating a database of the conservation status belonging to Cyprinidae, Cobitidae, Nemacheilidae, of under threatened inland water fishes in future), (5) Bagridae, Sisoridae, Cyprinodontidae, Poecilidae, a special consideration to main threatening factors of Cichlidae, Percidae and Mastacembelidae families fish diversity particularly in Fars Province (due to are surveyed, respectively. This chapter describes recent droughts in Iran especially in southern part of each family's identification keys, then their genera the Fars Province, many fish habitats especially for are introduced, and fish species of each genus are those of endemics are degraded. Hence, such a data described separately. For each specie a general can be useful for further management and description, systematic status, habitat features, conservation), and (6) providing tables and graphs to distribution, economic importance, and conservation summarize the conservation status and distribution of status have been provided. One of the important fish species. features of this book is the fish’s live pictures that Despite having many positive and prominent have been recorded during field works of the authors features, there are still some issues, which we will in recent years. briefly review them. Although authors tried to The third chapter provides species information in provide new information on the biological and the form of tables. The distribution of fish species in ecological characteristics of fishes, there is still the basins (sub-basins) in the province of Fars has insufficient information about some of the biological been presented as table. In addition, the species and ecological characteristics of some species. For diversity in each family in different basins has been example, some Aphanius species such as A. furcatus investigated as diagrams. One of the valuable and A. shirini have not been studied in terms of features of this chapter is the list of this province’s feeding and reproduction. Therefore, further studies fishes along with their conservation status (including on such a features need to be conducted. endemic, native, exotic and translocated). The list of In addition, some of recently described fish the reported fish species in Fars Province is presented species from the Fars Province’s basins such as in Table 1. Capoeta coadi, Garra mondica and Paraschistura According to the information of this book, delvarii are missing (Mousavi-Sabet & Eagderi 2015; 93 Iran. J. Ichthyol. (June 2019), 6(2): 92-97

Table 1. The list of the reported fish species in Fars Province (E: Endemic, N: Native, EX: Exotic, T: Translocated).

Family Number of Species species Cyprinidae 27 persidis (E) Alburnoides qanati (N) Alburnus sellal (mossulensis) (N) Arabibarbus grypus (N) lacerta (N) mesopotamicus (N) Capoeta aculeata (E) Capoeta mandica (E) Capoeta saadii (E) Capoeta trutta (N) Carasobarbus sublimus (E) Carasobarbus luteus (N) Carassius auratus (EX) orientale (E) Chondrostoma regium (N) Cyprinus carpio (EX) Ctenopharyngodon idella (EX) Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (EX) Hypophthalmichthys nobilis (EX) macrostomum (N) Cyprinion tenuiradius (E) Cyprinion watsoni (N) Garra rufa (N) Garra persica (E) Luciobarbus barbulus (N) Mesopotamichthys sharpeyi (N) Pseudorasbora parva (EX) Nemacheilidae 10 Paraschistura aredvii (E) Paraschistura abdolii (E) Paraschistura nielseni (E) Paraschistura naumanni (E) Turcinoemacheilus hafezi (E) Turcinoemacheilus saadii (E) Paracobitis persa (E) Oxynoemacheilus farsicus (N) Oxynoemacheilus persa (E) Oxynoemacheilus tongiorgii (E) Cyprinodontidae 7 Aphanius farsicus (E) Aphanius darabensis (E) Aphanius furcatus (E) Aphanius shirini (E) Aphanius sophiae (E) Aphanius pluristriatus (E) Aphanius dispar (N)

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Table 1. Continued.

Number of Family Species species Cobitidae 1 Cobitis linea (E) Bagridae 1 Mystus pelusius (N) Sisoridae 1 Glyptothorax silviae (E) Mugilidae 1 Planiliza abu (N) Percidae 1 Sander lucioperca (T) Iranocichla hormuzensis (E) Cichlidae 2 Amatitlania nigrofasciata (EX) 1 Oncorhynchus mykiss (EX) Mastacembelidae 1 Mastacembelus mastacembelus (N) Acipenser persicus (T) Acipenseridae 3 Acipenser stellatus (T) Huso huso (T) (Gambusia holbrooki (EX) Poeciliidae 2 Xiphophorus helleri (EX) 13 58

Sayyadzadeh et al. 2015; Alwan et al. 2016). Hence source for field guide for fishermen since it provide it is necessary to include them in future edition of the live pictures. In addition, it can cover some book. Also, the taxonomic status of some species has information regarding these fishes in other Iranian also changed, which should be reviewed. For basins. Therefore we suggest it for ichthyologist as a example, Alburnus mossulensis is a synonyms of proper source for systematic, ecology and biology of A. sellal Heckel (1843) (Mohammadian-Kalat et al. inland water fishes as well as conducting such a 2017), and Liza (Chelon) abu changed to Planiliza project for other provinces and/or basins. abu (Esmaeili et al. 2018). Furthermore, some species of the family Acipenseridae such as Huso References huso, Acipenser stellatus and A. persicus are listed, Alwan, N.; Zareian, H. & Esmaeili, H.R. 2016. Capoeta but their biological and ecological characteristics not coadi, a new species of cyprinid fish from the provided. River drainage, Iran based on morphological and Although this book has provided the conservation molecular evidences (Teleostei, Cyprinidae). status of the most fish species, but IUCN status of Zookeys 572: 155-180. Coad, B.W. 1991. Fishes of the Tigris- Basin: some species have not been evaluated. Therefore, it A critical Checklist. Syllogeus, Ottawa, 68: 1-49. is necessary to assess the conservation status of those Coad, B.W. 1996. Systematics of the tooth-carp genus species, especially endemics e.g. Paracobitis persa Aphanius Nardo, 1827 (: and Aphanius farsicus for further management and Cyprinodontidae) in Fars Province, southern Iran. conservation. Biologica Bratislava 51: 163-172. The present book is the result of the authors' Coad, B.W. & Bogutskaya, N.G. 2009. Alburnoides findings during their several years of research on qanati, a new species of cyprinid fish from southern ichthyofauna of the Fars Province. Hence, it provides Iran (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae). ZooKeys 13: 67- interesting and comprehensive information on the 77. ecological and biological characteristics of the fishes Coad, B.W. 2019. Freshwater fishes of Iran. in the province. This book also can be used as a www.briancoad.com. (accessed 6 June 2019)

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Fig.1. Cover page of the book. Esmaeili, H.R.; Sayyadzadeh, G.; Eagderi, S. & Abbasi, members of the genus Cyprinion Heckel, 1843 K. 2018. Checklist of freshwater fishes of Iran. (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in Iran, using landmark based FishTaxa 3: 1-95. geometric morphometric technique. Iranian Journal Esmaeili, H.R.; Teimory, A. & Khosravi, A. 2007. A of Ichthyology 6: 54-64. note on the biodiversity of Ghadamghah spring- Radkhah, A.R.; Eagderi, S.; Poorbagher, H. & Hosseini, stream system in Fras Province, Southwest Iran. V. 2018. An overview of the distribution of topmouth Journal of Biosystematics 3: 15-22. gudgeon (Pseudorasbora parva) in inland waters of Mohammadian-Kalat, T.; Esmaeili, H.R.; Aliabadian, Iran and its ecological effects. In: Protection of M. & Freyhof, J. 2017. Re-description of Alburnus Iranian Endemic Freshwater Fishes Conference, doriae, with comments on the taxonomic status of A. Fisheries Department (University of Tehran) and amirkabiri, A. mossulensis, A. sellal and Iranian Society of Ichthyology, Karaj, 19 December Petroleuciscus esfahani (Teleostei :Cyprinidae). 2018. pp:226-236. (In Farsi) Zootaxa 4323: 487-502. Radkhah, A.R. & Eagderi, S. 2019. Threatened fishes of Mostafavi, H. 2007. Study on the fish Biodiversity of the world: Anoxypristis cuspidata (Latham, 1794) Talar River in the Mazandaran Province. Journal of (Pristidae). Journal of Fisheries 7: 681-684. Environmental Studies 32: 127-135. (In Farsi) Sayyadzadeh, G.; Esmaeili, H.R. & Freyhof, J. 2015. Mousavi-Sabet, H. & Eagderi, S. 2015. Paraschistura Garra mondica, a new species from the Mond River delvarii spec. nov. a new species of stone loach from drainage with remarks on the genus Garra from the the basin, southern Iran (Teleostei: Persian Gulf basin in Iran (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Nemacheilidae). Vertebrate Zoology 65: 297-303. Zootaxa 4048: 75-89. Nasri, M.; Eagderi, S.; Farahmand, H. & Nezhadheydari, H. 2019. Interspecific morphological variation among

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نقد کتاب تنوع گونهای ماهیان استان فارس، اسماعیلی ح.ر. و تیموری آ. 1395. 288 صفحه. اداره کل محیط زیست استان فارس. شابک: 978-600-04-5600-9.

علیرضا رادخواه، سهیل ایگدری*، هادی پورباقر

گروه شیالت، دانشکده منابع طبیعی، دانشگاه تهران، کرج، ایران.

چکیده: استان فارس بهعنوان یکی از پهناورترین استانهای کشور، تنوع قابل مالحظهای از ماهیان آبهای داخلی ایران را در خود جای داده است. مطالعه حاضر به منظور بررسی و نقد کتاب "تنوع گونهای ماهیان استان فارس" که توسط اداره کل حفاظت محیط زیست استان فارس در سال 1396 انتشار یافته است، انجام شد. در این کتاب، فهرستی از گونههای ماهی استان فارس ارائه شده است. این کتاب اطالعات مهمی از ویژگیهای تاکسونومیکی، ریختشناسی، زیستی، اکولوژیکی و وضعیت حفاظتی گونههای ماهی را فراهم میکند. از اینرو، با توجه به محتوای غنی این کتاب، مطالعه آن برای ماهیشناسان و محققان و دانشجویان رشته های آبزیپروری و شیالت و زیستشناسی پیشنهاد میشود. کلماتکلیدی: فارس، تنوع زیستی، زیستشناسی، پراکنش، زیستگاه.

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