5. Arabibarbus arabicus (Trewavas, 1941) ―Arabian Shabout― Endemic

Taxonomy. Original description: Barbus arabicus Trewavas, 1941:14 [ Wadi Kharid, 20 miles northeast of San’a, Yemen; Holotype (unique): BMNH 1940.2.15.1]. Synonyms: None .

Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Yemen in original description by Trewavas (1941); reported by Borkenhagen (2014), and Hamidan & Shobrak (2019) from Saudi Arabia; confirmed by Freyhof et al. (2020).

General distribution. Southern Red Sea and internal basins, southern Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Habitat: freshwater.

Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Wadi Damad in southern Jizan (Saudi Arabia), and Wadi Kharid and Wadi Zabid (Yemen) (Borkenhagen 2014; Hamidan & Shobrak 2019; Freyhof et al. (2020).

Economic importance. Commercially important.

Conservation. Least Concern (LC).