قائمة مرجعية حديثة بأسماك قناة شط البصرة جنوب العراق

الملخص EN

The present study included prepared current check- list of fish have been found in the Shatt Al-Basrah canal, southern Iraq for the period from June 2009 to June 2010 has included 53 species ,belong to 34 families, two of them belong to cartilaginous fishes and 51 bony fishes species including 14 species of freshwater fishes and 37 species of marine habitat.

Cyprinidae considered the rich family with the number of species (eight species).

The marine fishes are divided into three categories , including very rare " and rare and common as adopted three historical studies to compare with the present study to give an idea of the composition of the of fishes in Shatt Al- Basrah canal.