Brian W. Coad (born 1946), British-born ichthyologist in Canada.

• Worked for Pahlavi (now Shiraz) University in Iran as Associate Professor (1976-1979)
• Worked for Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, as Curator of Fishes and Research Scientist, retiring in 2016.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 16 taxon names authored by Brian W. Coad

plus:

• Chondrostoma esmaeilii Eagderi, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Birecikligil, Çiçek, and Coad, 2017
• Garra amirhosseini Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh, Coad and Eagderi, 2016
• Alburnoides damghani Jouladeh Roudbar, Eagderi, Esmaeili, Coad and Bogutskaya, 2016
• Alburnoides holciki Coad and Bogutskaya, 2012
• Petroleuciscus esfahani Coad and Bogutskaya, 2010
• Aphanius mesopotamicus Coad, 2009
• Alburnus zagrosensis Coad, 2009
• Alburnoides qanati Bogutskaya and Coad, 2009
• Alburnoides idignensis Bogutskaya and Coad, 2009
• Alburnoides nicolausi Bogutskaya and Coad, 2009
• Alburnoides namaki Bogutskaya and Coad, 2009
• Alburnoides petrubanarescui Bogutskaya and Coad, 2009
• Alburnoides varentsovi Bogutskaya and Coad, 2009
• Alburnoides gmelini Bogutskaya and Coad, 2009
• Aphanius isfahanensis Hrbek, Keivany and Coad, 2006
• Ilamnemacheilus Coad and Nalbant, 2005
• Ilamnemacheilus longipinnis Coad and Nalbant, 2005
• Barbus sublimus Coad and Najafpour, 1997
• Aphanius vladykovi Coad, 1988
• Cobitis elazigensis Coad and Sarieyyüpoglu, 1988
• Acanthobrama hadiyahensis Coad, Alkahem and Behnke, 1983
• Iranocichla Coad, 1982
• Iranocichla hormuzensis Coad, 1982
• Pseudophoxinus persidis Coad, 1981
• Glyptothorax silviae Coad, 1981
• Bolotridon Coad, 1977

Eponyms

(List may be incomplete)

• 0 eponyms of Brian W. Coad
• Alburnoides coadi Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust and Doadrio, 2015
• Capoeta coadi Alwan, Zareian and Esmaeili, 2016

Publications

Author or co-author of Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada (2018), Freshwater Fishes of Iraq (2018 in Arabic, 2010 in English), Fishes of Afghanistan (2014), Freshwater Ecoregions of the World (2008), Fishes of Tehran Province and adjacent areas (2008), Expedition Field Techniques: Fishes (1998), Encyclopedia of Canadian Fishes (1995), Guide to the Marine Sport Fishes of Atlantic Canada and New England (1992 in English, 1993 in French), A Bibliography of the Fishes of the Tigris-Euphrates Basin / Bibliographie der Fische des Euphrat-Tigris-Beckens (1989), Bibliographie der Fische der Türkei/A Bibliography of the Fishes of Turkey (1986), A bibliography of the sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae: Osteichthyes) (1981), Fishes of Canada's National Capital Region (1975). Website at www.briancoad.com contains Fishes of Canada: An Annotated Checklist, Dictionary of Ichthyology, Fishes of Canada's National Capital Region, Freshwater Fishes of Iran, Freshwater Fishes of Iraq (checklist and bibliography), and a bibliography of publications.

• Eagderi, Soheil, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash, Birecikligil, Sevil Sungur, Çiçek, Erdoğan, and Coad, Brian W. 2017. Chondrostoma esmaeilii, a new cyprinid species from the Tigris river drainage in Iran (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Vertebrate Zoology, 67(2):125-132, 8 tables, 8 figures.
• Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz, Coad, Brian W. and Eagderi, Soheil. 2016. Review of the genus Garra Hamilton, 1822 in Iran with description of a new species: a morpho-molecular approach (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Iranian Journal of Ichthyology, 3(2)ː82-121, 5 tables, 31 figures.
• Jouladeh Roudbar, Arash, Eagderi, Soheil., Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Coad, Brian W. and Bogutskaya, Nina. 2016. A molecular approach to the genus Alburnoides using COI sequences data set and the description of a new species, A. damghani, from the Damghan River system (the Dasht-e Kavir Basin, Iran) (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae). ZooKeys, 579:157-181, 5 tables, 9 figures.
• Coad, Brian W. and Bogutskaya, Nina G. 2012. A new species of riffle minnow, Alburnoides holciki, from the Hari River basin in Afghanistan and Iran (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa, 3453:43–55, 4 tables, 8 figures.
• Coad, Brian W. and Bogutskaya, Nina G. 2010. Petroleuciscus esfahani, a new species of fish from central Iran (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa, 2534:37-47, 5 figures, 3 tables.
• Coad, Brian W. 2009. A new species of tooth-carp, Aphanius mesopotamicus, from Iran and Iraq (Actinopterygii, Cyprinodontidae), p. 149-163, 4 tables, 5 figures. In: Neubert, E., Amr, Z., Taiti, S. and Gümüs, B. (Eds.). Animal Biodiversity in the Middle East. Proceedings of the First Middle Eastern International Congress, Aqaba, Jordan, 20-23 October 2008, Aqaba, Jordan. ZooKeys, 31 (Special Issue):252 pp. ISSN 1313-2970 (online), ISSN 1313-2989 (print). Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow.
• Coad, Brian W. 2009. Alburnus zagrosensis n. sp., a new species of fish from the Zagros Mountains of Iran (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae). Zoology in the Middle East, 48:63-70, 1 table, 2 figures.
• Coad, Brian W. and Bogutskaya, Nina G. 2009. Alburnoides qanati, a new species of cyprinid fish from southern Iran (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae). ZooKeys, 13:67-77, 4 figures.
• Bogutskaya, N. G., and Coad, B. W. 2009. A review of vertebral and fin-ray counts in the genus Alburnoides (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) with a description of six new species. Zoosystematica Rossica, 18(1):126-173, 13 figures, 12 tables, 1 plate.
• Hrbek, Tomas, Keivany, Yazdan and Coad, Brian W. 2006. New species of Aphanius (Teleostei, Cyprinodontidae) from Isfahan Province of Iran and a reanalysis of other Iranian species. Copeia, 2006(2):244-255, 5 tables, 4 figures.
• Coad, Brian W. and Nalbant, Teodor T. 2005. A new genus and a new species of a remarkable nemacheilid fish from Iran (Pisces: Ostariophysi: Nemacheilidae). Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa", Bucharest, 48:303-308, 4 figures.
• Coad, Brian W. and Najafpour, Nasser. 1997. Barbus sublimus, a new species of cyprinid fish from Khuzestan Province, Iran. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 7(3):273-278, 4 figures, 1 table.
• Coad, Brian W. 1988. Aphanius vladykovi, a new species of tooth-carp from the Zagros Mountains of Iran (Osteichthyes: Cyprinodontidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 23(1-2):115-125, 2 figures, 3 tables. (Reprinted with same pagination in McAllister, Don E. and Edward Kott (Eds.). On lampreys and fishes: a memorial anthology in honor of Vadim D. Vladykov. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes, 8:1-162, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London).
• Coad, Brian W. and Mustafa Sarieyyüpoglu. 1988. Cobitis elazigensis, a new species of cobitidid fish from Anatolia, Turkey. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 34(4):426-430, 2 figures, 1 table.
• Coad, Brian W., H. F. Alkahem and R. J. Behnke. 1983. Acanthobrama hadiyahensis, a new species of cyprinid fish from Saudi Arabia. Publications in Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada, 2:v + 6 pp., 2 figures.
• Coad, Brian W. 1982a. A new genus and species of cichlid endemic to southern Iran. Copeia, 1982(1):28-37, 4 figures, 3 tables.
• Coad, Brian W. 1981. Pseudophoxinus persidis, a new cyprinid fish from Fars, southern Iran. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 59(11):2058-2063, 1 figure, 2 tables.
• Coad, Brian W. 1981. Glyptothorax silviae, a new species of sisorid catfish from southwestern Iran. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 27(4):291-295, 3 figures.
• Coad, Brian W. 1977. On the nomenclature of the genus name Tribolodon (Osteichthyes and Reptilia). Journal of Paleontology, 51(5):1046.
• Roudbar, A.J., Eagderi, S., Esmaeili, H.R., Coad, B.W. & Bogutskaya, N.G. 2016. A molecular approach to the genus Alburnoides using COI sequences data set and the description of a new species, A. damghani, from the Damghan River system (the Dasht-e Kavir Basin, Iran) (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae). ZooKeys 579: 157-181. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.579.7665. Reference page. 

External links

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