Sellal bleak

Sellal bleak
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Leuciscinae
Genus:	Alburnus
Species:	A. sellal
Binomial name
	Alburnus sellal; Heckel, 1843
Synonyms
	Alburnus hebes Heckel, 1843; Alburnus microlepis Heckel, 1843; Alburnus pallidus Heckel, 1843; Alburnus mossulensis Heckel, 1843; Chalcalburnus sellal (Heckel, 1843);

The Sellal bleak (Alburnus sellal) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Alburnus. It can be found in the drainage basins of the Queiq River and the Tigris–Euphrates river system in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. A recent study has found that Alburnus mossulensis was probably a synonym of Alburnus sellal.^[5]

References

^ Freyhof, J. (2014). "Alburnus sellal". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T19018860A19222803. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19018860A19222803.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Alburnus sellal". FishBase.
^ "Alburnus sellal Heckel, 1843". Biolib.cz. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
^ William Eschmeyer, ed. (2017). "Species that contain: Alburnus and sellal". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
^ Tooba Mommadian-Kalat; Hamod Reza Esmaeli; Mansour Aliabadian; Jorg Freyhof (2017). "Re-description of Alburnus doriae, with comments on the taxonomic status of A. amirkabiri, A. mossulensis, A. sellal and Petroleuciscus esfahani (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)". Zootaxa. 4323 (4). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4323.4.3.

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