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Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) > Cypriniformes (Carps) > Cyprinidae (Minnows or carps) > Alburninae
Etymology: Alburnus: From the city of Al Bura, where the fish was known (Ref. 45335); amirkabiri: Named for the first Iranian reformer Mirza Taghi Khan Farahani, known as Amir Kabir (1807-10 January 1852), also known as Atabak and Amir-e Nezam.

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Freshwater; pelagic. Tropical, preferred ?

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Asia: Iran.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 11.3 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 106247); 11.7 cm SL (female)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 3; Anal spines: 3. This species is distinguished from the other species of bleaks and shemayas from Iran by the following set of characters: a poorly expressed fleshy ventral keel which extends up to 2-4 (usually 2) transverse scales rows counted from the anus forwards; lateral line scales 47-59; branched dorsal-fin rays 7½-8½ (usually 8½); branched anal-fin rays 10½-12½ (usually more than 10½); gill rakers 12-17 (usually 15-16); predorsal distance 50.0-54.4% SL; anal-fin base length 9.0-11.7% SL; dorsal-fin depth 16.7-20.9% SL; anal-fin depth 12.0-5.6% SL; body depth at dorsal fin origin 16.9-22.2% SL; caudal peduncle depth 8.7-10.4% SL; head depth 62.2-71.9% HL; eye diameter 27.1-30.8% HL; body with a dark lateral stripe (Ref. 106247).

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Mousavi-Sabet. H., S. Vatandoust, S. Khataminejad, S. Eagderi, K. Abbasi, M. Nasri, A. Jouladeh and E.D. Vasil’eva, 2015. Alburnus amirkabiri (Teleostei), a new species of Shemaya from the Namak Lake Basin, Iran. J. Ichthyol., 55(1):40-52. (Ref. 106247)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 115185)

Not Evaluated

CITES (Ref. 94142)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Alburnus amirkabiri Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust, Khataminejad, Eagderi, Abbasi, Nasri, Jouladeh & Vasil'eva, 2015