persicus, Cyprinodon Jenkins [J. T.] 1910:125, Pl. 6 (fig. 4) [Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 5 (pt 2) (art. 12); ref. 14478] Spring on the edge of Shiraz Lake, southern Iran. Syntypes: ZSI F9403-04 (2). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:141 [ref. 20743]. Secondarily preoccupied in Aphanius by Brachylebias persicus Priem 1908 (fossil), replaced by Aphanius farsicus Teimori, Esmaeili & Reichenbacher 2011. No longer needed. •Questionably a synonym of Aphanius sophiae (Heckel 1847) -- (Coad 1991:20 [ref. 15702]). •Questionably a synonym of Aphanius punctatus (Heckel 1847) -- (Coad 1995:26 [ref. 23608]). •Valid as Lebias persicus (Jenkins 1910) -- (Lazara 2001:188 [ref. 25711]). •Synonym of Aphanius sophiae (Heckel 1847) -- (Wildekamp 1993:63 [ref. 26378]). •Valid as Aphanius persicus (Jenkins 1910) -- (Coad 1996:171 [ref. 23604], Coad 1998:103 [ref. 23869], Coad & Abdoli 2000:87 [ref. 25295], Hrbek et al. 2006:250 [ref. 28685], Coad 2009:152 [ref. 30643], Esmaeili et al. 2010:375 [ref. 33391]). •Objective synonym of Aphanius farsicus Teimori, Esmaeili & Reichenbacher 2011 -- (Teimori et al. 2012:56 [ref. 32136], Esmaeili et al. 2017:90 [ref. 35254], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:260 [ref. 37983]). •Valid as Esmaeilius persicus (Jenkins 1910) -- (Freyhof & Yoğurtçuoğlu 2020:444 [ref. 37656], Çiçek et al. 2024:356 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Esmaeilius persicus (Jenkins 1910). Aphaniidae. Distribution: Middle East: Maharlu Lake basin, Fars Province, southern Iran. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.