Identifying historical drivers of biodiversity distribution patterns is a central issue in ecology
and biogeography. Iran is a biodiversity-rich country in southwestern Asia. It is known that …

This checklist aims to list all the reported Iranian inland fishes. It lists 297 species in 109
genera, 30 families, 24 orders and 3 classes reported from different Iranian basins …

This checklist aims to reviews and summarize the results of the systematic researches on the
Persian Gulf ichthyofauna that has been carried out for more than 200 years. Since the work …

Co-occurring biodiversity and global heating crises are systemic threats to life on Earth as
we know it, especially in relatively rare freshwater ecosystems, such as in Iran. Future …

This is an annotated checklist of all the recognized and named taxa of freshwater fishes in
Iran. It documents recent changes and controversies in the nomenclature and includes …

Following an exhaustive review of published molecular data and morphological characters,
we propose a new generic classification for the Cyprinodontiform family Aphaniidae. The …

The current status of the freshwater fishes of Iraq is revised, and an updated checklist is
presented. The confirmed freshwater fishes of Iraq comprise 98 species belonging to 16 …

The fishes, which have currently named Aphanius Nardo, 1827 are the relict of the ancient
ichthyofauna of the Tethys Sea. For a long time since 1827, the genus name has been …

The presence and effects of nanoplastics (NPs;< 1 μm) in the aquatic environment are a
growing concern. In this study, a model tooth-carp fish, Aphaniops hormuzensis, has been …

Otolith shape variation in the Ornate goby, Istigobius ornatus (Teleostei: Gobiidae), collected
along the intertidal coasts of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea, was analysed using Wavelet …