Sattar snowtrout (''Schizothorax curvifrons'') is a species of
cyprinid native to the highlands of south-central Asia from
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkm ...
to
China where it can be found in most types of freshwater habitats. This species can reach a length of
TL and a weight of up to . It is important to local
commercial fisheries.
The species is variable and some of its subpopulation possibly should be recognized as separate species. For example, ''S. intermedius'' and ''S. fedtschenkoi'' both are considered as
synonyms of ''S. curvifrons'' by
FishBase
FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish). It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web. , but all three are recognized as valid species by the
Catalog of Fishes.
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Photograph
Schizothorax
Fish described in 1838
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