The Iranian cave barb (Iranocypris typhlops Bruun & Kaiser, 1944) is a rare and endemic species of the family Cyprinidae known from a single locality in the Zagros Mountains, western Iran. This species is "Vulnerable" according to the IUCN Red List and is one of the top four threatened freshwater fish species in Iran. Yet, the taxonomic position of I. typhlops is uncertain. We examined phylogen...

The phylogenetic relationship between two sympatric morphotypes of the Iran cave barb Iranocypris typhlops, and Garra rufa, was investigated by sequencing the cytochrome c oxidase I (coI) region (788 bp) providing the first molecular evidence of their phylogeny. Consistent with their morphological differences, the mean genetic distance between the two forms of I. typhlops was significantly high...

iranian cave barb (iranocypris typhlops, bruun and kaiser, 1944)is one of thevery rareandendemicspeciesof iran. its distributionrangeislimitedina habitat that causes some problems for its conservation. thisuniquehabitatfaces somenatural and humanthreatsand the habitatdestructionmeansthe extinctionof the species. based on, habitat selection for translocation of the species is an important object...

Four obligate cave fish species have been recorded from Zagros in Iran: Garra typhlops (Bruun and Kaiser, 1944), G. lorestanensis (Mousavi-Sabet Eagderi, 2016), tashanensis (Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust, Fatemi 2016) Eidinemacheilus smithi (Greenwood, 1976). So far, the only known locality of latter has Loven cave. Here, we extend range blind loach (E. smithi) by reporting a new locality, Tuveh sp...