Mirogrex hulensis Goren, Fishelson & Trewavas, 1973:310
Hula bream
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Mirogrex terraesanctae hulensis Goren, Fishelson & Trewavas, 1973:310 (original combination); Mirogrex terrae-sanctae hulensis Goren, Fishelson & Trewavas, 1973:310; Acanthobrama hulensis (Goren, Fishelson & Trewavas, 1973:310)
Conservation Status
Extinct (Crivelli, 2006; Goren, 2014, 2026; Freyhof et al., 2025)
Last record: 1975 (Crivelli, 2006; Goren, 2014, 2026; Freyhof et al., 2025:351)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution & Habitat
Lake Hula basin, northern Israel
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Goren, M., Fishelson, Lev and Trewavas, E. (1973). The Cyprinid fishes of Acanthobrama Heckel and related genera. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. Zool. 24: 291-315.
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Crivelli, A. J. (2006). Mirogrex hulensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T73A13071324. Accessed on 21 July 2026.
Freyhof, Jörg, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash and Kaya, Cüneyt. (2025). Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111677811 [p. 351]
Goren, M. (2014a). Mirogrex hulensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 07 July 2014.
Goren, M. (2014b). Mirogrex hulensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T73A19848542. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T73A19848542.en. Accessed on 01 July 2022.
Goren, M. (2026). Mirogrex hulensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2026: e.T73A135082235. Accessed on 21 July 2026.
Goren, M. and Ortal, R. (1999). Biogeography, diversity and conservation of the inland water fish communities in Israel. Biological Conservation 89: 1-9.
Krupp, F. and Schneider, W. (1989). The fishes of the Jordan River drainage basin and Azraq Oasis. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 10: 347-416.
Perea, S., Böhme, M., Zupančič, P., Freyhof, J., Sanda, R., Özuluğ, M., Abdoli, A. and Doadrio, I. 2010. Phylogenetic relationships and biogeographical patterns in circum-Mediterranean subfamily Leuciscinae (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) inferred from both mitochondrial and nuclear data. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10(265): 1-27.
RAMSAR. (1971). National Report of Israel for COP 7. Ramsar Convention Bureau, Switzerland.
Vardakas, Leonidas, Perdikaris, Costas, Freyhof, Jörg, Zimmerman, Brian, Ford, Matthew, Vlachopoulos, Konstantinos, Koutsikos, Nicholas, Karaouzas, Ioannis, Chamoglou, Maria and Kalogianni, Eleni. (2025). Global Patterns and Drivers of Freshwater Fish Extinctions: Can We Learn From Our Losses? Global Change Biology 31(5): e70244. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70244 [Table S1]
Zohar, Irit and Biton, Rebecca. (2011). Land, lake, and fish: Investigation of fish remains from Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov (paleo-Lake Hula). Journal of Human Evolution 60(4): 343-356.
http://www.uicnmed.org/web2007/cd_fwfish/materials/summery/m/Mirogrex_hulensis.pdf
http://www.fishbase.us/Summary/speciesSummary.php?id=25773&lang=english
https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/1729/mirogrex-hulensis-hula-bream