Author: (Coad, 1988)
FBname: Veladykov’s tooth-carp
Comments: Collected from an altitude of approximately 2,380 meters on a small plain between high ranges at the easternmost edge of the Zagros Mountains; from a large pool in the upper reaches of the Karun River basin which drains to the head of the Persian Gulf; shallow water at about 4 cm depth; cloudy water over mud and pebbles; with <i>Myriophyllum</i> (Ref. 38795)  and <i>Potamogeton</i> sp. which are the dominant aquatic plants used as spawning substrate (Ref. 54276).  Not a seasonal killifish (Ref. 27139).
  
  Parasites ( <i>Trichodina</i> sp., <i>Gyrodactylus sp., <i>Diplostomum spathaceum, <i>Allocreadium isoporum, <i>Allocreadium pseudaspii, <i>Ornithodiplostomum sp., <i>Contracecum sp., and <i>Acanthocephalorhynchoides cholodkowskyi) were found from a collected sample of <i>Aphanius vladykovi</i>  in Gandoman lagoon (Ref. 125593).