''Alburnus doriae'' is a species of cyprinid fish from Iran. It was previously thought to be restricted to central Iran, but recent research shows that it is more widespread and that ''

Alburnus amirkabiri Amirkabir's bleak (''Alburnus amirkabiri'') is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae, endemic to Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. ...

'' and ''

Petroleuciscus esfahani ''Petroleuciscus esfahani'' is a species of cyprinid freshwater fish from Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the ...

'' are probably a synonyms of ''Alburnus doriae''.

Description

''Alburnus doriae'' is a fish with a slender body which shows marked lateral compression with as lightly convex or straight dorsal profile. It has a pointed snout and the lower jaw normally projects beyond the upper jaw, the snout being at least as long as the diameter of the eye and equal to the interorbital distance, the interorbital area is concave. The mouth points upwards. The maximum standard length is 134mm. The back is dark olive-brown through to grey in colour with silver on the flanks, belly and lower part of the head, a dark grey strip runs from the back of the eye to the caudal peduncle with darker brown spots below and above the lateral line. The fins lack colour apart from the bases of the

pectoral fin Fins are distinctive anatomical features composed of bony spines or rays protruding from the body of a fish. They are covered with skin and joined together either in a webbed fashion, as seen in most bony fish, or similar to a flipper, as ...

s and pelvic fins which are orange.

Distribution

''Alburnus doriae'' is endemic to Iran where it is found in two

endorheic An endorheic basin (; also spelled endoreic basin or endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but drainage converges instead into lakes ...

drainage basins, that of the

Zayandeh River Zayanderud ( fa, Zāyanderud, script=Latn, from "fertile" or "life giver", and "river"), also spelled as ''Zayandeh-Rood'' or ''Zayanderood'', is the largest river of the Iranian Plateau in central Iran. Geography The Zayandeh starts in t ...

close to the city of Ishfahan and in the Qom and Gareh-Chai Rivers which are tributaries of the salt lake, Namak, It has also been recorded from the stream known as Shahrekord, which flows into the

Karun River The Karun ( fa, کارون, ) is the Iranian river with the highest water flow, and its only navigable river. It is long. It rises in the Zard Kuh mountains of the Bakhtiari district in the Zagros Range, receiving many tributaries, such a ...

, the lowermost tributary of the

Tigris The Tigris () is the easternmost of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian and Arabian Deserts, and empties into the ...

Naming

''Alburnus doriae'' was described by the Italian zoologist Filippo de Filippi in 1865 from specimens collected by

Giacomo Doria Marquis Giacomo Doria (1 November 1840 – 19 September 1913) was an Italian naturalist, botanist, herpetologist, and politician. He was the founder of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Genoa in 1867, and director from then until his d ...

in 1862 from "around

Shiraz Shiraz (; fa, شیراز, Širâz ) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 p ...

". The specific name honours Doria.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3764324 doriae Fish described in 1865 Taxa named by Filippo De Filippi