Paracobitis smithi

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Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	CYPRINIFORMES	BALITORIDAE

Scientific Name:

Paracobitis smithi

Species Authority:

(Greenwood, 1976)

Common Name/s:

English

–

Blind Loach

Synonym/s:

Nemacheilus smithi Greenwood, 1976

Taxonomic Notes:

Appeared in the 1996 to 2006 IUCN Red Lists under the name Nemacheilus smithi.

Red List Category & Criteria:

Vulnerable D2 ver 2.3

Year Published:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

History:

1994	–	Rare (Groombridge 1994)
1990	–	Rare (IUCN 1990)

Range Description:	Occurs in Baq-e-Loveh pool.
Countries:	Native: Iran, Islamic Republic of
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Habitat and Ecology:	A cave-dwelling species.
Systems:	Freshwater

	Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B (editors and compilers). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B (editors and compilers). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Paracobitis smithi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 16 May 2012.
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