Author: Mousavi-Sabet, Eagderi, Saemi-Komsari, Kaya & Freyhof, 2022
Comments: Found in April 2016 in a spring in Boein-e-Olia (Iran), which was about 2-3 meters wide, the outflowing stream had a low velocity and the bed was covered by gravel. When the place was revisited in June 2021, the species could not be found anymore in the spring, but specimens were collected from the stream Boein-e-Sofla (which is fed by the spring). At the type locality (Boein-e-Olia spring and Boein-e-Sofla stream), the species was not found, but <i>G. rufa</i> is widespread in the Lesser Zab drainage, including the Chooman River drainage. In Turkey, all three sampling sites were shallow, with clear and swiftly flowing water and cobbles and pebbles substrate. Among the three sampling sites, Çıratan was visited several times during different seasons and this species is abundant in its Turkish distribution area. This stream hosts several regionally endemic species, such as <i>Turcinoemacheilus kosswigi</i>. <i>Paracobitis zabgawraensis</i>, <i>Glyptothorax daemon</i>, and <i>G. kurdistanicus</i> (Ref. 124212). In Çıratan, two adult individuals of <i>G. rufa</i> were found, one half-grown individual in the stream Büyük, both were syntopic with <i>G. rezai</i> (Ref. 128981).