Gobio hettitorum Ladiges 1960
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Description
Gobio hettitorum
Common name. Taurus gudgeon.
Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Gobio in Anatolia by: ○ 44–46 total lateral-line scales / ○ chest completely scaled, scales extending forward to isthmus / ○ head length 24–27 % SL / ○ 10–14 scales between posterior extremity of pelvic base and anus / ○ interorbital distance approximately 1.6–1.8 times in eye diameter / ○ 8–10 scale rows between dorsal origin and lateral line / ○ caudal length 17–20 % SL / ○ anal length 15–17 % SL. Size up to 124 mm SL.
Distribution. Türkiye: Yeşildere, Deliçay, Gödet, and Ayrancı drainages (Karaman), and Ereğli marshes.
Habitat. Small streams with clear water and sand and gravel bottoms.
Biology. No data.
Conservation status. VU; appears to be declining in its small range due to the desiccation of streams. Extirpated from Ereğli around 2010.
Further reading. Ladiges 1960 (description); Naseka et al. 2006 (identification).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ladiges
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Gobio
- Species
- hettitorum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gobio hettitorum Ladiges, 1960 sec. Freyhof, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Jouladeh-Roudbar & Kaya, 2025
References
- Ladiges, W. 1960. Susswasserfische der Turkei, I. Teil Cyprinidae. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 58: 105-150.
- Naseka, A. M., F. Erk'akan & F. Kucuk. 2006. A description of two new species of the genus Gobio from Central Anatolia (Turkey) (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 15: 185-194. https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2016.1182779