259. Scartelaos tenuis (Day, 1876)

Common name. Slender mudskipper

Taxonomy. Original description: Boleophthalmus tenuis Day, 1876: 305, pl. 65 (fig. 1) [Estuaries of Karachi, Sind, Pakistan; Lectotype: AMS B.7618] .

Revisions. None.

Illustrations. Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020: 248, fig. 456).

Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Tigris, Persis, Hormuz, Makran.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates, 451-Northern Hormuz Drainages, 452-Caspian Marine, 701-Baluchistan.

Status in Iran. [Native].—Gel khorak-e deraz.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.

Conservation. —IUCN: LC.

Synbranchiformes