Fishes of the Astrakhan Nature Reserve: an updated checklist with comments of recent records

S.A. Podolyako, V.V. Fedorovich & K.V. Litvinov

Abstract. Since publication of the previous list (Litvinov & Podolyako, 2013), new data on species composition of fish fauna in the Astrakhan State Reserve have been obtained. As a result of revisions of the collected material and new records (e.g., the first finding of Khvalyn spined loach Cobitis amphilekta Vasil’eva, Vasil’ev, 2012), the list of fish species has been corrected and widened. At present, the list of fish species in the Reserve includes one species of Petromyzontidae and 60 species of Acipenseridae, Clupeidae, Cyprinidae, Cobitidae, Siluridae, Coregonidae, Salmonidae, Esocidae, Lotidae, Atherinidae, Gasterosteidae, Syngnathidae, Percidae, and Gobiidae. Identifications used in previous lists of fishes found in the Astrakhan reserve in 1936–2016 and brief information on biology and dates of latest records of each species are given.

Key words: agnathans, teleosts, phaunistics, Asrakhan State Reserve, Volga delta, Caspian Sea

Zoosystematica Rossica, 2017, 26(1): 182–195 ▪ Published in print 23 June 2017

https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2017.26.1.182 ▪ Open full article

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