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J. Bio. Env. Sci. 2018
63 | Mohamed and Al-Jubouri
RESEARCH PAPER OPEN ACCESS
Occurrence of cyprinid fish, Carasobarbus sublimus in the
Al-Diwaniya River, Middle Euphrates, Iraq
Abdul-Razak Mahmood Mohamed*¹
, Mohanad Obes Abdullah Al-Jubouri²
¹
Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources, College of Agriculture, Basrah University, Iraq
²Department of pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Al-Qasim Green University, Iraq
Article published on January 20, 2018
Key words: Carasobarbus sublimus, Biometric characters, Al-Diwaniya River, Iraq
Abstract
During a fish survey from 2016 to 2017, we captured 83 specimens of the cyprinid fish, Carasobarbus
sublimus from the Al-Diwaniya River, Middle Euphrates, Iraq. This is the first report of the occurrence of
this species in this locality. Fish were captured by gill nets and electro-fishing equipment. Twenty two
morphometric and eleven meristic measurements were applied to describe the species. The range of total
length in the present specimens (130.4-250.1mm) is larger than the range quoted for C. sublimus. The
indices characters to standard length (SL) varied from 7.4 % to 121.0 %, and the head characters to head
length (HL) from 27.4% to 93.2%. The growth rate between body characters and SL varied from 0.085 to
1.118 and between head characters and HL from 0.210 to 1.091.The numbers of scales in lateral line and
around the least circumference of the caudal peduncle are 27-29 and 12, respectively. The biometric data
were successful in identifying of C. sublimus and confirm the presence of the species in the Al-Diwaniya
River. This is the second record of the species in the Iraqi freshwaters. Based on this finding, the case would
be interesting and open to discussion about the distributions of C. sublimus in the Tigris-Euphrates basin.
*Corresponding Author: Abdul-Razak Mahmood Mohamed  abdul19532001@yahoo.com
Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences (JBES)
ISSN: 2220-6663 (Print) 2222-3045 (Online)
Vol. 12, No. 1, p. 63-72, 2018
http://www.innspub.net
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Introduction
According to Borkenhagen and Krupp (2013), the
cyprinid genus Carasobarbus Karaman, 1971 (the
himri) belong to the family Cyprinidae, subfamily
Barbinae are distributed across southwest Asia and
northwest Africa. They occur in all major river
systems of the Levant, Mesopotamia, southern Iran,
western and south-western Arabian Peninsula and in
northern Morocco.
Also, Borkenhagen and Krupp (2013) revised and
expanded Karaman’s (1971) diagnosis of the genus
that now contains the nine following species:
Carasobarbus apoensis, C. canis, C. chantrei,
C. exulatus, C. fritschii, C. harterti, C. kosswigi, C.
luteus and C. sublimus.
Three species from the genus, C. luteus, C. kosswigi
and C. sublimus have been reported from Iranian
waters (Borkenhagen and Krupp, 2013) and C.
chantrei, C. kosswigi and C. luteus from Turkish
waters (Çiçek et al., 2015), while C. luteus, C.
kosswigi and C. sublimes were found in Iraqi waters
(Coad, 2010; Mohamed et al., 2017).
C. sublimus was first described and reported by Coad
and Najafpour in 1997 from Khuzestan waters,
southwestern Iran. C. sublimus formerly placed in the
genus Kosswigobarbus Berg, 1916, but Borkenhagen
et al. (2011) placed this species in Carasobarbus.
Coad and Najafpour (1997) and Esmaeil et al. (2006)
have rectified the species by comparing it with C.
kosswigi and C. luteus on the basis of their
morphology in Iran, while, Mohamed et al. (2017)
described and compared C. sublimus obtained from
the Shatt Al-Arab River for the first time in Iraq with
C. luteus in Iraqi waters.
During the ichthyofauna survey for the Al-Diwania
River (a branch from the Euphrates River, middle of
Iraq) during November 2016 - October 2017, several
specimens of cyprinid fish, C. sublimus have been
caught for the first time from south the Daghghara
barrier on this river.
The predominant vegetations on the both banks of
this locality were reed, Phragmites australis and
cattail, Typha domingensis, whereas hornwort,
Ceratophyllum demersum was dominant in the
deeper areas.
The water temperature of the river varied from 10.2oC
in March to 32.8oC in August, dissolved oxygen
fluctuated from 5.0mg/l in August to 9.6mg/l cm in
February, salinity values ranged from 0.55‰ in April
to 0.79‰ in October (Mohamed and Al-Jubouri,
2017).
So, the purpose of this paper is to describe the
morphometric and meristic characters of C. sublimus
for the first time in the middle of Iraq. Examined
specimens had been placed in the fish collection of
the Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary
Medicine, Al-Qasim Green University, Iraq.
Materials and methods
Study area
AL-Diwaniya River is an extension of the Al-Hilla
River which is a branch of Euphrates River at Al-
Hindyah Barrier, in the middle of Iraq.
It is 123 km long, 25-30m wide and 3-5m depth.
The river is the major water resource for the AL-
Diwaniya city/Al-Qadidiyah Province, which flows
through the city, then narrows in the districts of
Sideer and Al-Hamzah and continues to flow until it
fades in the district of Al-Rumaythah/Al-Muthanna
Province.
During the period from July to September 2017, a
number of C. regium individuals were caught from
site 1, south the Daghghara barrier (Fig. 1) along with
the specimens of other fish species during the
ichthyofauna survey for the Al-Diwania River for the
period from November 2016 to October 2017
(Mohamed and Al-Jubouri, 2017).
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65 | Mohamed and Al-Jubouri
Fig. 1. Map of Al-Qadisiyah Province showing the collection site of C. sublimus in Al-Diwaniya River.
Fish collection
Fish were captured by gill nets (25m long with 20x20,
30x30 and 50x50mm mesh sizes) and electro-fishing
equipment (provides 150-300V). Fish were
immediately preserved in ice box till arrive the Al-
Qasim Green University. All fish specimens were
measured and examined at the laboratory of the
Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary
Medicine, Al-Qasim Green University, Iraq.
Biometric analysis
In the laboratory, eight specimens of C. sublimus
were used for the morphological study after
distinguished them from C. luteus follows Coad and
Najafpour (1997), Borkenhagen and Krupp (2013)
and Mohamed et al. (2017). Twenty two
morphometric and eleven meristic characters were
recorded according to Coad and Najafpour (1997) and
Borkenhagen and Krupp (2013). Total, standard and
fork lengths of the specimens were measured to the
nearest 1.0 mm using a measuring board. Other
morphometric measurements were carried out with
digital caliper to the nearest 0.1mm. Names of
morphometric and meristic characters are shown in
Tables 1 and 2. Linear regression relationship and
coefficient of correlation were calculated to determine
the strength of relationship between standard length
(SL) and all morphometric characters, and between
head length and certain dimensions in the head. The
various statistical values, correlation coefficients and
regression analysis were made using Microsoft Office
Excel 2010 version.
Results
Description
Overall body shape can be seen in Figure 2. The body
is relatively deep and compressed without a nuchal
hump. The color of live specimen is orange to
brownish on sides and belly with back olive-green.
The pectoral and pelvic fins are faint brown and the
anal and caudal fins are dark olive-green. C. sublimus
can be diagnosed by the shape of the mouth (Fig. 3).
The mouth is inferior and small, the lips are thick and
the lower jaw is speculate with a horny sheath and a
median lobe on the lower lip. Two pairs of well-
developed barbells, the posterior barbell is longer and
thicker than the anterior barbell. The eyes are nearer
to the opercle than the mouth. Scales are large sized,
cycloid and regularly arranged over the whole body.
Lateral line is closer to the belly than the back, but
median in caudal peduncle. The dorsal fin origin lies
over the pelvic fin origin.
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Table 1. Morphometric characters of C. sublimus collected from Al-Diwaniya River.
Morphometric characters Range Mean (± SD)
Total length (mm TL) 130.4-250.1 199.1 (35.4)
Standard length (mm SL) 115.6-212.5 164.7 (29.8)
Fork length (mm FL) 125.3-234.0 176.7 (34.3)
Related characters in % of SL
Total length (TL) 107.9-129.3 121.0 (7.8)
Fork length (FL) 92.1-111.6 107.3 (6.3)
Body depth (BD) 31.1-34.9 33.5 (1.3)
Body width (BW) 13.0-17.7 15.7 (1.8)
Head length (HL) 22.8-27.2 24.7 (1.4)
Predorsal length (PDFL) 48.1-55.5 51.1 (2.2)
Dorsal fin base length (DFBL) 15.5-18.8 17.2 (1.0)
Dorsal fin length (DFL) 16.4-24.9 19.5 (2.8)
Anal fin length (AFL) 15.9-20.1 18.3 (1.6)
Anal fin base length (AFBL) 6.0-8.7 7.4 (1.0)
Pectoral fin length (PFL) 16.4-21.8 20.0 (1.6)
Ventral fin length (VFL) 15.4-19.1 17.6 (1.3)
Caudal peduncle length (CPL) 15.1-19.9 18.2 (1.8)
Caudal peduncle depth (CPD) 10.6-13.4 11.9 (1.0)
Related characters in % of HL
Head depth (HD) 78.1-103.9 93.2 (7.9)
Head width (HW) 51.7-69.3 60.5 (5.6)
Snout length (SNL) 26.7-32.7 29.0 (2.3)
Interorbital distance (ID) 39.0-45.1 42.5 (2.0)
Orbital (Eye) diameter (ED) 24.3-31.1 27.4 (1.9)
Upper jaw length (UJL) 25.5-33.4 28.2 (2.8)
The dorsal fin is slightly too strongly concave on its
margin. The pectoral fin margin is concave. The
pelvic fin has a straight to rounded posterior margin.
The caudal fin is deeply forked with the lower lobe
more developed and with longer rays than upper lobe.
The anal fin reaches or obviously passes the base of
the caudal fin rays.
Table 2. Comparison of biometric characteristics of C. sublimes from the Al-Diwania River with other studies.
Biometric characters Present study Mohamed et
al. (2017)
Esmaeili et al.
(2006)
Borkenh-agen &
Krupp (2013)
Coad &
Najafpour (1997)
Body depth in % of SL 31.1-34.9 (33.5) 31.2-34.7
(32.6)
27.9-33.4 (30.6) 28.6-30.3
Head length in % of SL 22.8-27.2 (24.7) 22.4-28.8
(24.9)
25.2-30.1 (27.7)
Predorsal length (PDFL) in % SL 48.1-55.5 (51.1) 50.1-53.5
(52.1)
49.1-57.0 (52.5)
Caudal peduncle depth CPD in % of SL 10.6-13.4 (11.9) 11.4-12.1 (11.8) 11.8-13.8 (12.8)
Number of scales in lateral line 27-29 27-29 24-28 27-29 24-27
Number of scales above lateral line 4-5 4.5-4.5 - 4.5-5.5 4-5
Number of scales below lateral line 3-5 4-5 - 3.5-5.5 4-5
Number of scales in caudal peduncle 12-12 12-12 12-12
Number of branched dorsal fin rays 9-10 9-10 11 9-10 10-11
Number of spiny rays in dorsal fin 3-3 3-3 3-3 4
Number of branched pectoral fin rays 16-16 16-16 16-18 14-15
Number of branched ventral fin rays 9-9 9-9 9.4 8
Number of branched anal fin rays 6-7 7-7 6-8 6-6 6
Number of spiny rays in anal fin 3-3 3-3 3-3 3
Number of gill rakers 10-13 10-13 10-12 10-12, 15
Number of pharyngeal teeth 2.3.4-5.3.1, 2.3.4-
5.3.2, 2.3.5-5.3.1,
2.3.5-5.3.2,
2.3.4–5.3.2,
2.3.5–5.3.2,
2.3.4–5.3.2,
2.3.4–5.3.1
- 2.3.4-5.3.2, 2.3.4-
5.3.1
or
3.3.4-4.3.3
2.3.5-4.3.2,
1.3.5-4.3.2,
3.3.4-4.3.2
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Morphometric characters
A total of eight specimens of C. sublimus with length
range of 115.6-212.5 mm in standard length (SL) were
measured in the present study. Nineteen
morphometric characters were calculated as numerical
ratio to standard and head lengths (Table 1).
The indices characters to standard length varied from
7.4 % of anal fin base length to 121.0 % of total length.
However, the ratio of body depth (33.5%) was greater
than the ratio of body width (15.7%). The indices
characters of head depth, head width, snout length,
eye diameter, interorbital width and upper jaw length
with head length ranged from 27.4% of eye diameter
to 93.2% of head depth (Table 1).
The results of the relationship between all
morphometric characters against standard length of
C. sublimus are shown in Figure 4. The analysis of the
relation revealed that the highest value of slop (b)
with total length (b= 1.118) and lowest value with anal
fin base length (b= 0.085). However, the relation with
total length, fork length and predorsal fin length
showed high growth rate, while anal fin base length
and caudal peduncle depth indicated very slow
growth rate.
Fig. 2. C. sublimus captured from Al-Diwaniya River (Fish, 217 mm TL).
The values of correlation coefficient obtained were
found to be highly significant (when r > 0.90) with
body depth, predorsal fin length, head length, body
width and ventral fin length and significant
correlations (when r<0.90) were observed for other
morphmeterics characters of C. sublimus (Fig. 4).
Figure 5 showed the relation between head length of
C. sublimus and certain dimensions in the head. The
values of regression slop (b) for the relation varied
from 0.210 for eye diameter to 1.091 for head depth.
The relation with head depth and head width showed
high growth rate, while snout length and eye diameter
indicated slow growth rate. Also, the analysis of the
relation between head length and other head
characters revealed the correlation values ranged
from 0.740 for snout length to 0.956 for head width
(Fig. 5).
Meristics characters
The meristic characters data of C. sublimus with
length range of 115.6-212.5 mm in standard length
were presented in Table 2. Two pairs of well-
developed barbells (Fig. 3A).
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The numbers of scales in lateral line, above and below
lateral line are 27-29, 4-5 and 3-5, respectively. The
number of scales around the least circumference of
the caudal peduncle is 12. The dorsal fin rays are 3, 9-
10, pectoral fin rays 16, ventral fin rays 9 and anal fin
rays 3, 6-7.
Fig. 3. Front, side and ventral views of the head of C. sublimus (Fish, 250 mm TL).
The number of gill rakers is 10-13 and the pharyngeal
teeth count is 2.3.4–5.3.1, 2.3.4–5.3.2 or 3.3.5–5.3.1,
3.3.5–5.3.2 (Fig. 6).
Discussion
C. sublimus was previously recorded for the first time
in the Iraqi waters by Mohamed et al. (2017) from the
Shatt Al-Arab River, southern of Iraq. They got seven
specimens of this species on February 2016 from the
upper reaches of the River at Dair City, 60 km south
of Qurna City, where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
merged. They concluded that the species had spread
or moved from Iranian waters adjacent to the Iraqi
border to the Shatt Al-Arab River.
After this discrimination of the species from C. luteus,
hundreds of individuals from C. sublimus were
caught, 673 fish, i.e. 2.5% from the fish assemblage in
the upper reaches of the Shatt Al-Arab River or about
0.71% from the total fish assemblage in the river
(Mohamed and Abood, 2017).
Again several individuals (83 fish, i.e. 0.63% of total
fish collection) were caught from the Al-Diwaniya
River, in the middle of Iraq (Mohamed and Al-
Jubouri, 2017). The description of these individuals
has been based on a series of morphometric and
meristic characters in a multivariate analysis during
the present study. These characters of the individuals
agree with the description of C. sublimus given by
Coad and Najafpour (1997), Esmaeili et al. (2006),
Borkenhagen and Krupp (2013) and Mohamed et al.
(2017). Such agreement indicated that these
specimens are C. sublimus.
On the other hand, Coad (2010) stated that C.
kosswigi reported from Haditha in Iraq on the
Euphrates River in October 1953, and it may be more
common but has not always been recognized in field
samples or museum collections.
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69 | Mohamed and Al-Jubouri
Fig. 4. The relationships between morphometric characters against standard length of C. sublimus in Al-
Diwaniya River.
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Haditha on the Euphrates River is approximately 350
km north the Al-Hindyah Barrier where Al-Hilla
River and then Al-Diwaniya River branches from the
Euphrates River. C. kosswigi is distinguished from C.
sublimus by having 32 to 38 scales in the lateral line
vs. 27 to 29 and usually 14 to 16 scales around the
least circumference of the caudal peduncle vs. 12, and
the maximum length of C. kosswigi is about 150 mm
SL (Borkenhagen and Krupp, 2013).
Fig. 5. The relationships between head characters against head length of C. sublimus in Al-Diwaniya River.
The size of the specimens obtained in the present
study (130.4-250.1 mm TL, 115.6-212.5 mm SL) is
larger than the ranges of the total length of C.
sublimus obtained from other waters. Mohamed et al.
(2017) reported a range of 119–170 mm TL (95–140
mm SL) for specimens of C. sublimus obtained from
the Shatt Al-Arab River.
However, the biggest specimen of C. sublimus from
Khuzestan waters in Iran was 115.0 mm SL (Coad and
Najafpour, 1997). This makes the largest specimen
attained a new record size for this species. All the
morphometric characters of C. sublimus in the
present study show high values of linear correlation
with standard length or with head length, indicating
that the growth of fish in one area of the body is
correlated to growth in another area of the body.
Similar linear relationship was also reported by
Jaiswar et al. (2004), Saroniya et al. (2013) and
Mohamed et al. (2016) in various fish species.
From the past, some local fishermen in the south of
Iraq (personal information) were distinguishing
between two types of himri, C. luteus and the other
was called them Al-Aroosa (the bride) in the local
name due to the orange color of its lips (Fig. 3C),
which may be referred to C. sublimes fish.
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Fig. 6. Pharyngeal bone of C. sublimus (Fish, 217 mm
TL).
If we consider the question of whether the population
of C. sublimes was already there in Iraqi waters before
but were not captured in the previous studies, may be
due to inadequate sampling techniques or
misidentified fish species by some researchers and
consider them as one species (C. luteus).
Subsequently, if this population of the species has
appeared in the Shatt Al-Arab River (southern of
Iraq) previously and now in the Al-Diwaniya River
(middle of Iraq), the case would be interesting and
open to discussion about the distributions of C.
sublimus in the Tigris-Euphrates basin.
Conclusions
The results showed that the biometric data were
successful in identifying of C. sublimus and confirm the
presence of the species in the Al-Diwaniya River. This is
the second record of this species in the Iraqi freshwaters.
Based on this finding, the case would be interesting and
open to discussion about the distributions of C. sublimus
in the Tigris-Euphrates basin.
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S, Shahryari F, Gholamifard A. 2011. The
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Occurrence of cyprinid fish, Carasobarbus sublimus in the Al-Diwaniya River, Middle Euphrates, Iraq|JBES

  • 1. J. Bio. Env. Sci. 2018 63 | Mohamed and Al-Jubouri RESEARCH PAPER OPEN ACCESS Occurrence of cyprinid fish, Carasobarbus sublimus in the Al-Diwaniya River, Middle Euphrates, Iraq Abdul-Razak Mahmood Mohamed*¹ , Mohanad Obes Abdullah Al-Jubouri² ¹ Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources, College of Agriculture, Basrah University, Iraq ²Department of pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Al-Qasim Green University, Iraq Article published on January 20, 2018 Key words: Carasobarbus sublimus, Biometric characters, Al-Diwaniya River, Iraq Abstract During a fish survey from 2016 to 2017, we captured 83 specimens of the cyprinid fish, Carasobarbus sublimus from the Al-Diwaniya River, Middle Euphrates, Iraq. This is the first report of the occurrence of this species in this locality. Fish were captured by gill nets and electro-fishing equipment. Twenty two morphometric and eleven meristic measurements were applied to describe the species. The range of total length in the present specimens (130.4-250.1mm) is larger than the range quoted for C. sublimus. The indices characters to standard length (SL) varied from 7.4 % to 121.0 %, and the head characters to head length (HL) from 27.4% to 93.2%. The growth rate between body characters and SL varied from 0.085 to 1.118 and between head characters and HL from 0.210 to 1.091.The numbers of scales in lateral line and around the least circumference of the caudal peduncle are 27-29 and 12, respectively. The biometric data were successful in identifying of C. sublimus and confirm the presence of the species in the Al-Diwaniya River. This is the second record of the species in the Iraqi freshwaters. Based on this finding, the case would be interesting and open to discussion about the distributions of C. sublimus in the Tigris-Euphrates basin. *Corresponding Author: Abdul-Razak Mahmood Mohamed  abdul19532001@yahoo.com Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences (JBES) ISSN: 2220-6663 (Print) 2222-3045 (Online) Vol. 12, No. 1, p. 63-72, 2018 http://www.innspub.net
  • 2. J. Bio. Env. Sci. 2018 64 | Mohamed and Al-Jubouri Introduction According to Borkenhagen and Krupp (2013), the cyprinid genus Carasobarbus Karaman, 1971 (the himri) belong to the family Cyprinidae, subfamily Barbinae are distributed across southwest Asia and northwest Africa. They occur in all major river systems of the Levant, Mesopotamia, southern Iran, western and south-western Arabian Peninsula and in northern Morocco. Also, Borkenhagen and Krupp (2013) revised and expanded Karaman’s (1971) diagnosis of the genus that now contains the nine following species: Carasobarbus apoensis, C. canis, C. chantrei, C. exulatus, C. fritschii, C. harterti, C. kosswigi, C. luteus and C. sublimus. Three species from the genus, C. luteus, C. kosswigi and C. sublimus have been reported from Iranian waters (Borkenhagen and Krupp, 2013) and C. chantrei, C. kosswigi and C. luteus from Turkish waters (Çiçek et al., 2015), while C. luteus, C. kosswigi and C. sublimes were found in Iraqi waters (Coad, 2010; Mohamed et al., 2017). C. sublimus was first described and reported by Coad and Najafpour in 1997 from Khuzestan waters, southwestern Iran. C. sublimus formerly placed in the genus Kosswigobarbus Berg, 1916, but Borkenhagen et al. (2011) placed this species in Carasobarbus. Coad and Najafpour (1997) and Esmaeil et al. (2006) have rectified the species by comparing it with C. kosswigi and C. luteus on the basis of their morphology in Iran, while, Mohamed et al. (2017) described and compared C. sublimus obtained from the Shatt Al-Arab River for the first time in Iraq with C. luteus in Iraqi waters. During the ichthyofauna survey for the Al-Diwania River (a branch from the Euphrates River, middle of Iraq) during November 2016 - October 2017, several specimens of cyprinid fish, C. sublimus have been caught for the first time from south the Daghghara barrier on this river. The predominant vegetations on the both banks of this locality were reed, Phragmites australis and cattail, Typha domingensis, whereas hornwort, Ceratophyllum demersum was dominant in the deeper areas. The water temperature of the river varied from 10.2oC in March to 32.8oC in August, dissolved oxygen fluctuated from 5.0mg/l in August to 9.6mg/l cm in February, salinity values ranged from 0.55‰ in April to 0.79‰ in October (Mohamed and Al-Jubouri, 2017). So, the purpose of this paper is to describe the morphometric and meristic characters of C. sublimus for the first time in the middle of Iraq. Examined specimens had been placed in the fish collection of the Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Al-Qasim Green University, Iraq. Materials and methods Study area AL-Diwaniya River is an extension of the Al-Hilla River which is a branch of Euphrates River at Al- Hindyah Barrier, in the middle of Iraq. It is 123 km long, 25-30m wide and 3-5m depth. The river is the major water resource for the AL- Diwaniya city/Al-Qadidiyah Province, which flows through the city, then narrows in the districts of Sideer and Al-Hamzah and continues to flow until it fades in the district of Al-Rumaythah/Al-Muthanna Province. During the period from July to September 2017, a number of C. regium individuals were caught from site 1, south the Daghghara barrier (Fig. 1) along with the specimens of other fish species during the ichthyofauna survey for the Al-Diwania River for the period from November 2016 to October 2017 (Mohamed and Al-Jubouri, 2017).
  • 3. J. Bio. Env. Sci. 2018 65 | Mohamed and Al-Jubouri Fig. 1. Map of Al-Qadisiyah Province showing the collection site of C. sublimus in Al-Diwaniya River. Fish collection Fish were captured by gill nets (25m long with 20x20, 30x30 and 50x50mm mesh sizes) and electro-fishing equipment (provides 150-300V). Fish were immediately preserved in ice box till arrive the Al- Qasim Green University. All fish specimens were measured and examined at the laboratory of the Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Al-Qasim Green University, Iraq. Biometric analysis In the laboratory, eight specimens of C. sublimus were used for the morphological study after distinguished them from C. luteus follows Coad and Najafpour (1997), Borkenhagen and Krupp (2013) and Mohamed et al. (2017). Twenty two morphometric and eleven meristic characters were recorded according to Coad and Najafpour (1997) and Borkenhagen and Krupp (2013). Total, standard and fork lengths of the specimens were measured to the nearest 1.0 mm using a measuring board. Other morphometric measurements were carried out with digital caliper to the nearest 0.1mm. Names of morphometric and meristic characters are shown in Tables 1 and 2. Linear regression relationship and coefficient of correlation were calculated to determine the strength of relationship between standard length (SL) and all morphometric characters, and between head length and certain dimensions in the head. The various statistical values, correlation coefficients and regression analysis were made using Microsoft Office Excel 2010 version. Results Description Overall body shape can be seen in Figure 2. The body is relatively deep and compressed without a nuchal hump. The color of live specimen is orange to brownish on sides and belly with back olive-green. The pectoral and pelvic fins are faint brown and the anal and caudal fins are dark olive-green. C. sublimus can be diagnosed by the shape of the mouth (Fig. 3). The mouth is inferior and small, the lips are thick and the lower jaw is speculate with a horny sheath and a median lobe on the lower lip. Two pairs of well- developed barbells, the posterior barbell is longer and thicker than the anterior barbell. The eyes are nearer to the opercle than the mouth. Scales are large sized, cycloid and regularly arranged over the whole body. Lateral line is closer to the belly than the back, but median in caudal peduncle. The dorsal fin origin lies over the pelvic fin origin.
  • 4. J. Bio. Env. Sci. 2018 66 | Mohamed and Al-Jubouri Table 1. Morphometric characters of C. sublimus collected from Al-Diwaniya River. Morphometric characters Range Mean (± SD) Total length (mm TL) 130.4-250.1 199.1 (35.4) Standard length (mm SL) 115.6-212.5 164.7 (29.8) Fork length (mm FL) 125.3-234.0 176.7 (34.3) Related characters in % of SL Total length (TL) 107.9-129.3 121.0 (7.8) Fork length (FL) 92.1-111.6 107.3 (6.3) Body depth (BD) 31.1-34.9 33.5 (1.3) Body width (BW) 13.0-17.7 15.7 (1.8) Head length (HL) 22.8-27.2 24.7 (1.4) Predorsal length (PDFL) 48.1-55.5 51.1 (2.2) Dorsal fin base length (DFBL) 15.5-18.8 17.2 (1.0) Dorsal fin length (DFL) 16.4-24.9 19.5 (2.8) Anal fin length (AFL) 15.9-20.1 18.3 (1.6) Anal fin base length (AFBL) 6.0-8.7 7.4 (1.0) Pectoral fin length (PFL) 16.4-21.8 20.0 (1.6) Ventral fin length (VFL) 15.4-19.1 17.6 (1.3) Caudal peduncle length (CPL) 15.1-19.9 18.2 (1.8) Caudal peduncle depth (CPD) 10.6-13.4 11.9 (1.0) Related characters in % of HL Head depth (HD) 78.1-103.9 93.2 (7.9) Head width (HW) 51.7-69.3 60.5 (5.6) Snout length (SNL) 26.7-32.7 29.0 (2.3) Interorbital distance (ID) 39.0-45.1 42.5 (2.0) Orbital (Eye) diameter (ED) 24.3-31.1 27.4 (1.9) Upper jaw length (UJL) 25.5-33.4 28.2 (2.8) The dorsal fin is slightly too strongly concave on its margin. The pectoral fin margin is concave. The pelvic fin has a straight to rounded posterior margin. The caudal fin is deeply forked with the lower lobe more developed and with longer rays than upper lobe. The anal fin reaches or obviously passes the base of the caudal fin rays. Table 2. Comparison of biometric characteristics of C. sublimes from the Al-Diwania River with other studies. Biometric characters Present study Mohamed et al. (2017) Esmaeili et al. (2006) Borkenh-agen & Krupp (2013) Coad & Najafpour (1997) Body depth in % of SL 31.1-34.9 (33.5) 31.2-34.7 (32.6) 27.9-33.4 (30.6) 28.6-30.3 Head length in % of SL 22.8-27.2 (24.7) 22.4-28.8 (24.9) 25.2-30.1 (27.7) Predorsal length (PDFL) in % SL 48.1-55.5 (51.1) 50.1-53.5 (52.1) 49.1-57.0 (52.5) Caudal peduncle depth CPD in % of SL 10.6-13.4 (11.9) 11.4-12.1 (11.8) 11.8-13.8 (12.8) Number of scales in lateral line 27-29 27-29 24-28 27-29 24-27 Number of scales above lateral line 4-5 4.5-4.5 - 4.5-5.5 4-5 Number of scales below lateral line 3-5 4-5 - 3.5-5.5 4-5 Number of scales in caudal peduncle 12-12 12-12 12-12 Number of branched dorsal fin rays 9-10 9-10 11 9-10 10-11 Number of spiny rays in dorsal fin 3-3 3-3 3-3 4 Number of branched pectoral fin rays 16-16 16-16 16-18 14-15 Number of branched ventral fin rays 9-9 9-9 9.4 8 Number of branched anal fin rays 6-7 7-7 6-8 6-6 6 Number of spiny rays in anal fin 3-3 3-3 3-3 3 Number of gill rakers 10-13 10-13 10-12 10-12, 15 Number of pharyngeal teeth 2.3.4-5.3.1, 2.3.4- 5.3.2, 2.3.5-5.3.1, 2.3.5-5.3.2, 2.3.4–5.3.2, 2.3.5–5.3.2, 2.3.4–5.3.2, 2.3.4–5.3.1 - 2.3.4-5.3.2, 2.3.4- 5.3.1 or 3.3.4-4.3.3 2.3.5-4.3.2, 1.3.5-4.3.2, 3.3.4-4.3.2
  • 5. J. Bio. Env. Sci. 2018 67 | Mohamed and Al-Jubouri Morphometric characters A total of eight specimens of C. sublimus with length range of 115.6-212.5 mm in standard length (SL) were measured in the present study. Nineteen morphometric characters were calculated as numerical ratio to standard and head lengths (Table 1). The indices characters to standard length varied from 7.4 % of anal fin base length to 121.0 % of total length. However, the ratio of body depth (33.5%) was greater than the ratio of body width (15.7%). The indices characters of head depth, head width, snout length, eye diameter, interorbital width and upper jaw length with head length ranged from 27.4% of eye diameter to 93.2% of head depth (Table 1). The results of the relationship between all morphometric characters against standard length of C. sublimus are shown in Figure 4. The analysis of the relation revealed that the highest value of slop (b) with total length (b= 1.118) and lowest value with anal fin base length (b= 0.085). However, the relation with total length, fork length and predorsal fin length showed high growth rate, while anal fin base length and caudal peduncle depth indicated very slow growth rate. Fig. 2. C. sublimus captured from Al-Diwaniya River (Fish, 217 mm TL). The values of correlation coefficient obtained were found to be highly significant (when r > 0.90) with body depth, predorsal fin length, head length, body width and ventral fin length and significant correlations (when r<0.90) were observed for other morphmeterics characters of C. sublimus (Fig. 4). Figure 5 showed the relation between head length of C. sublimus and certain dimensions in the head. The values of regression slop (b) for the relation varied from 0.210 for eye diameter to 1.091 for head depth. The relation with head depth and head width showed high growth rate, while snout length and eye diameter indicated slow growth rate. Also, the analysis of the relation between head length and other head characters revealed the correlation values ranged from 0.740 for snout length to 0.956 for head width (Fig. 5). Meristics characters The meristic characters data of C. sublimus with length range of 115.6-212.5 mm in standard length were presented in Table 2. Two pairs of well- developed barbells (Fig. 3A).
  • 6. J. Bio. Env. Sci. 2018 68 | Mohamed and Al-Jubouri The numbers of scales in lateral line, above and below lateral line are 27-29, 4-5 and 3-5, respectively. The number of scales around the least circumference of the caudal peduncle is 12. The dorsal fin rays are 3, 9- 10, pectoral fin rays 16, ventral fin rays 9 and anal fin rays 3, 6-7. Fig. 3. Front, side and ventral views of the head of C. sublimus (Fish, 250 mm TL). The number of gill rakers is 10-13 and the pharyngeal teeth count is 2.3.4–5.3.1, 2.3.4–5.3.2 or 3.3.5–5.3.1, 3.3.5–5.3.2 (Fig. 6). Discussion C. sublimus was previously recorded for the first time in the Iraqi waters by Mohamed et al. (2017) from the Shatt Al-Arab River, southern of Iraq. They got seven specimens of this species on February 2016 from the upper reaches of the River at Dair City, 60 km south of Qurna City, where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers merged. They concluded that the species had spread or moved from Iranian waters adjacent to the Iraqi border to the Shatt Al-Arab River. After this discrimination of the species from C. luteus, hundreds of individuals from C. sublimus were caught, 673 fish, i.e. 2.5% from the fish assemblage in the upper reaches of the Shatt Al-Arab River or about 0.71% from the total fish assemblage in the river (Mohamed and Abood, 2017). Again several individuals (83 fish, i.e. 0.63% of total fish collection) were caught from the Al-Diwaniya River, in the middle of Iraq (Mohamed and Al- Jubouri, 2017). The description of these individuals has been based on a series of morphometric and meristic characters in a multivariate analysis during the present study. These characters of the individuals agree with the description of C. sublimus given by Coad and Najafpour (1997), Esmaeili et al. (2006), Borkenhagen and Krupp (2013) and Mohamed et al. (2017). Such agreement indicated that these specimens are C. sublimus. On the other hand, Coad (2010) stated that C. kosswigi reported from Haditha in Iraq on the Euphrates River in October 1953, and it may be more common but has not always been recognized in field samples or museum collections.
  • 7. J. Bio. Env. Sci. 2018 69 | Mohamed and Al-Jubouri Fig. 4. The relationships between morphometric characters against standard length of C. sublimus in Al- Diwaniya River.
  • 8. J. Bio. Env. Sci. 2018 70 | Mohamed and Al-Jubouri Haditha on the Euphrates River is approximately 350 km north the Al-Hindyah Barrier where Al-Hilla River and then Al-Diwaniya River branches from the Euphrates River. C. kosswigi is distinguished from C. sublimus by having 32 to 38 scales in the lateral line vs. 27 to 29 and usually 14 to 16 scales around the least circumference of the caudal peduncle vs. 12, and the maximum length of C. kosswigi is about 150 mm SL (Borkenhagen and Krupp, 2013). Fig. 5. The relationships between head characters against head length of C. sublimus in Al-Diwaniya River. The size of the specimens obtained in the present study (130.4-250.1 mm TL, 115.6-212.5 mm SL) is larger than the ranges of the total length of C. sublimus obtained from other waters. Mohamed et al. (2017) reported a range of 119–170 mm TL (95–140 mm SL) for specimens of C. sublimus obtained from the Shatt Al-Arab River. However, the biggest specimen of C. sublimus from Khuzestan waters in Iran was 115.0 mm SL (Coad and Najafpour, 1997). This makes the largest specimen attained a new record size for this species. All the morphometric characters of C. sublimus in the present study show high values of linear correlation with standard length or with head length, indicating that the growth of fish in one area of the body is correlated to growth in another area of the body. Similar linear relationship was also reported by Jaiswar et al. (2004), Saroniya et al. (2013) and Mohamed et al. (2016) in various fish species. From the past, some local fishermen in the south of Iraq (personal information) were distinguishing between two types of himri, C. luteus and the other was called them Al-Aroosa (the bride) in the local name due to the orange color of its lips (Fig. 3C), which may be referred to C. sublimes fish.
  • 9. J. Bio. Env. Sci. 2018 71 | Mohamed and Al-Jubouri Fig. 6. Pharyngeal bone of C. sublimus (Fish, 217 mm TL). If we consider the question of whether the population of C. sublimes was already there in Iraqi waters before but were not captured in the previous studies, may be due to inadequate sampling techniques or misidentified fish species by some researchers and consider them as one species (C. luteus). Subsequently, if this population of the species has appeared in the Shatt Al-Arab River (southern of Iraq) previously and now in the Al-Diwaniya River (middle of Iraq), the case would be interesting and open to discussion about the distributions of C. sublimus in the Tigris-Euphrates basin. Conclusions The results showed that the biometric data were successful in identifying of C. sublimus and confirm the presence of the species in the Al-Diwaniya River. This is the second record of this species in the Iraqi freshwaters. Based on this finding, the case would be interesting and open to discussion about the distributions of C. sublimus in the Tigris-Euphrates basin. References Borkenhagen K, and Krupp F. 2013. Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Carasobarbus Karaman, 1971 (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae). ZooKeys 339, 1-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.339.4903 Borkenhagen K, Esmaeili HR, Mohsenzadeh S, Shahryari F, Gholamifard A. 2011. The molecular systematics of the Carasobarbus species from Iran and adjacent areas, with comments on Carasobarbus albus (Heckel, 1843). Environmental Biology of Fishes 91(3), 327-335. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10641-011-9787-1 Çiçek E, Birecikligil SS, Fricke R. 2015. Freshwater fishes of Turkey: a revised and updated annotated checklist. Biharean Biologist 9(2), 141-157. http://biozoojournals.ro/bihbiol/index.html Coad BW, Najafpour N. 1997. Barbus sublimus, a new species of cyprinid fish from Khuzestan Province, Iran. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 7(3), 273–278. Coad BW. 2010. Freshwater Fishes of Iraq. Pensoft Ser. Faunist. Moscow: Pensoft Publishers. Esmaeili HR, Teimori A, Gholami Z, Hosseinie F. 2006. Range extension of Barbus sublimus Coad and Najafpour, 1997 (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae) and Its Sympatric Species in Southwest of Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 2, 19–24. Jaiswar AK, Parida PK, Chakraborty SK, Palaniswamy R. 2004. Morphometry and length weight relationship of obtuse barracuda Sphyraena obtusata (Cuvier) (Teleostomi/ Actinopterygii/ Sphyraenidae) from Bombay waters, west coast of India. Indian Journal of Marine Sciences 33(3), 307-309. Mohamed ARM, Abood AN. 2016. Occurrence of the King Nase, Chondrostoma regium (Heckel, 1843) in the Shatt Al-Arab River, Iraq. IOSR Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science 9(8), 85-89. http://dx.doi.org/10.9790/2380-0908018589 Mohamed ARM, Abood AN. 2017. Compositional change in fish assemblage structure in the Shatt Al- Arab River, Iraq. Asian Journal of Applied Sciences 5(5), 944-958.
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