Oryzias
Jordan and Snyder, 1906

Oryzias latipes
(Temminck and Schlegel, 1846)

Introduced to the Tedzhen River basin and Karakum Canal in Turkmenistan (Aliev et al., 1988; Sal'nikov, 1995) but no confirmed Iranian record. It is reported as reproducing in Iran by the Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome (www.fao.org/scripts/acqintro/query/retrive.ide, downloaded 28 July 1999) but this record is presumably in error and needs confirmation by specimens.