Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
; Água doce bentopelágico. Subtropical; 15°C - 26°C (Ref. 2059)
Eurasia: Jordan River drainage basin, the entire Levant, Mesopotamia and parts of southern Turkey.
Length at first maturity / Tamanho / Peso / Idade
Maturity: Lm 15.1, range 19 - ? cm
Max length : 50.0 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 13609); common length : 29.0 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 11028); Idade máx. registada: 8 anos (Ref. 126680)
Espinhos dorsais (total): 4; Raios dorsais moles (total): 8
Occurs in lakes, streams with fast and slow-moving water currents and in clear and muddy water. Bottom fish that feeds on aufwuchs which it scrapes from the substrate with the horny sheet of the lower lip. Its diet consists of algae, aquatic invertebrates, and detritus (Ref. 13609). It spawns between January and March in small streams where it deposits its eggs on gravel. Tasteless fish, and the spawn is toxic (Andrey Marlin, pers. comm., 2003).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturidade | Reprodução | Desova | Ovos | Fecundidade | Larvas
Krupp, F. and W. Schneider, 1989. The fishes of the Jordan River drainage basin and Azraq Oasis. p. 347-416. In Fauna of Saudi Arabia. vol. 10. (Ref. 13609)
Categoria na Lista Vermelha da IUCN (Ref. 130435)
Ameaça para o homem
Harmless
Utilização humana
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01023 (0.00870 - 0.01204), b=2.97 (2.93 - 3.01), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref.
93245).
Nível Trófico (Ref.
69278): 2.4 ±0.17 se; based on food items.
Resiliência (Ref.
120179): Médio, tempo mínimo de duplicação da população 1,4 - 4,4 anos (Assuming tm=1-3 and Fec>10,000).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Moderate vulnerability (40 of 100).
