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Species of the genus Aphanius are known for their attractive color pattern. They are also suitable biological tool for controlling of mosquito. For that reason, they could be potential candidates to be translocated from natural environments to artificial man-made environments such as aquarium, canals and pools. In present paper, morphometric, morphological and molecular evidences suggest the translocation of native Aphanius populations (belong to A. dispar group) between different drainages in Iran. The results indicate that A. dispar found in a man-made pool in Kahnuj city, and in man-made canals in Bandar Abbas city had been introduced. It has already been documented that populations from south, southeastern and southwestern Iran probably are distinct; therefore, translocation of the individuals between these genetically divergent populations probably have adverse effects through the loss of genetic diversity, and also make their taxonomic relationships difficult to understand.
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Butzer, K.W. 1961. Climatic change in arid regions since the Pliocene. In: Stamp LD (ed.), Arid zone research XVII. A history of land use in arm regions. UNESCO, Paris. pp. 31-56.
Coad, B.W. 1980. Environmental change and its impact on the freshwater fishes of Iran. Biological Conservation 19: 51-80.
Edgar, R.C. 2004. MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput. Nucleic Acids Research 32: 1792-1797.
Esmaeili, H.R.; Coad, B.W.; Gholamifard, A.; Nazari, N. & Teimori, A. 2010. Annotated checklist of the freshwater fishes of Iran. Zoosystematica Rossica 19: 361-386.
Esmaeili, H.R.; Teimori, A.; Gholami, Z. & Reichenbacher, B. 2014. Two new species of the tooth-carp Aphanius (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) and the evolutionary history of the Iranian inland and inland-related Aphanius species. Zootaxa 3786: 246-268.
Esmaeili, H.R.; Khajehpanah, A.; Mehraban, H.R.; Elmi, A.; Malekzehi, H. & Pazira, A. 2015a. Fishes of the Mashkid and Makran basins of Iran: an updated checklist and ichthyogeography. Iranian Journal of Ichthyology 2: 113-132.
Esmaeili, H.R.; Babai, S.; Gholamifard, A.; Pazira, A.; Gholamhosseini, A. & Coad, B.W. 2015b. Fishes of the Persis region of Iran: an updated checklist and ichthyogeography. Iranian Journal of Ichthyology 3: 201-223.
Gholami, Z.; Esmaeili, H.R.; Erpenbeck, D. & Reichenbacher, B. 2014. Phylogenetic analysis of Aphanius from the endorheic Kor River Basin in the Zagros Mountains, Southwestern Iran (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 52: 130-141.
Gholami, Z.; Esmaeili, H.R. & Reichenbacher, B. 2015. New data on the zoogeography of Aphanius sophiae (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) in the Central Zagros (Southwest Iran). Limnologica - Ecology and Management of Inland Waters 51: 70-82.
Harris, J. 2003. Fish stocking and translocation in the Murray-Darling Basin: issues, benefits and problems. Managing fish translocation and stocking in the Murray-Darling Basin workshop: Statement, recommendations and supporting papers. Canberra. pp. 25–26.
Harris, J.H. & Battaglene, S.C. 1989. The introduction and translocation of native freshwater fishes in south-eastern Australia. In: Introduced and translocated fishes and their ecological effects, Proceedings of the Australian Society for Fish Biology Workshop No. 8 Bureau of Rural Resources (eds) DA Pollard (Australian Government Printing Office), Canberra.
Koehn, J. 2004. Carp (Cyprinus carpio) as a powerful invader in Australian waterways. Freshwater Biology 49: 882-894.
Lintermans, M. 2004. Human assisted dispersal of alien freshwater fish in Australia. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 38: 481-501.
Machordom, A. & Doadrio, I. 2001. Evolutionary history and speciation modes in the cyprinid genus Barbus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 268: 1297-1306.
Masoudi, M.; Esmaeili, H.R.; Teimori, A.; Gholami Z.; Gholamhosseini, A.; Sayyadzadeh, G.; Keivany, Y. & Reichenbacher, R. 2016. Sympatry and possible hybridization among species of the killifish genus Aphanius Nardo, 1827 (Teleostei: Cyprino-dontidae) in Southwestern Iran. Limnologica 59: 10-20.
Morgan, D.L.; Gill, H.S.; Maddern, M.G. & Beatty, S.J. 2004. Distribution and impacts of introduced freshwater fishes in Western Australia. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 38: 511-523.
Stamatakis, A. 2006. RAxML-VI-HPC: maximum likelihood-based phylogenetic analyses with thousands of taxa and mixed models. Bioinformatics 22: 2688-2690.
Teimori, A.; Schulz-Mirbach, T.; Esmaeili, H.R. & Reichenbacher, B. 2012. Geographical differentiation of Aphanius dispar (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) from Southern Iran. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 50: 289-304.
Teimori, A.; Esmaeili, H.R.; Erpenbeck, D. & Reichenbacher, B. 2014. A new and unique species of the genus Aphanius (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) from Southern Iran: A case of regressive evolution. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology 253: 327-337.
Wildekamp, R.H. 1993. A world of killies. Atlas of the oviparous cyprinodontiform fishes of the world. The genera Adamas, Adinia, Aphanius, Aphyoplatys and Aphyosemion. American Killifish Association, Indiana.