IRAN: The Search for Iranocichla (Part 2)

By Heiko Bleher

Brian Coad, the Canadian ichthyologist and expert on fishes of Iran, who also described Iranocichla has recorded 22 sites for this cichlid and I wanted to see them all and also if I find some other location no researched. The first sport was southwest from here and the river still on all maps at the time (including satellite maps), lied between Hormud and Tangdãlãn, but it was no riverbed any more. There was only a lake, no begin and no end, except for desert on both sides…

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