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Pseudophoxinus maeandri
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Description
Pseudophoxinus maeandri
Common name. Apamean spring minnow.
Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Pseudophoxinus in Western Anatolia by: ○ 41–46+2–3 scales in lateral series / ○ lateral line incomplete with 19–27 perforated scales / ○ mouth terminal or slightly subterminal / ○ flank without or with indistinct, brown mid-lateral stripe. Size up to 57 mm SL.
Distribution. Türkiye: Lake Işıklı basin.
Habitat. Densely vegetated springs and lakes.
Biology. No data.
Conservation status. EN; appears to be declining within its very small range.
Further reading. Bogutskaya 1992 (revision); Freyhof & Özuluğ 2006 (description); Küçük et al. 2013 (distribution).
Notes
Published as part of Freyhof, Jörg, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash & Kaya, Cüneyt, 2025, Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia, GmbH, Berlin / Boston :De Gruyter on page 381, DOI: 10.1515/9783111677811, http://zenodo.org/record/17881367
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ladiges
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Pseudophoxinus
- Species
- maeandri
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pseudophoxinus maeandri (Ladiges, 1960) sec. Freyhof, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Jouladeh-Roudbar & Kaya, 2025
References
- Bogutskaya, N. G. 1992. A revision of species of the genus Pseudophoxinus (Leuciscinae, Cyprinidae) from Asia Minor. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 89: 261-290.
- Freyhof, J. & M. Ozulug. 2006. Pseudophoxinus ninae, a new species from Central Anatolia, Turkey (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwaters 3: 255-259.
- Kucuk, F., I. Gulle, S. S. Guclu, Y. Ciftci & O. Erdogan. 2013. A new Pseudophoxinus (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) species from southwestern Anatolia, with remarks on the distribution of the genus in western Anatolia. ZooKeys 320: 29-41. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.320.4447