Field Document 1
January 1991
| FI: UNDP/IRA/88/001 Field Document 1 January 1991 |
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
 | NEW SPECIES OF FRESHWATER FISH FROM THE IRANIAN COAST OF THE CASPIAN SEA |
Report prepared for the Anzali Lagoon productivity and fish
stocks investigations project
by
Juraj Holcik (Technical Adviser) and Bahram Ali Razavi (Deputy
Director, Fishery Research Organization, Bandar Anzali)
This report was prepared during the course of the project identified on the title page. The conclusions and recommendations given in the report are those considered at the time of its preparation. They may be modified in the light of the further knowledge gained at the subsequent stages of the project.
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Abstract
Four species of freshwater fish little known or not yet recorded in Iran were found along the southwestern coast of the Caspian Sea: Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758), Stenodus leucichthys (Güldenstädt, 1771), Oncorhynchus keta (Walbaum, 1792) and Hemiculter leucisculus (Basilewski, 1855). While the former two species are native to the Caspian Sea basin, the latter two are exotic and were intentionally (chum salmon) or unintentionally (common sawbelly) introduced.
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 1991
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