Pseudophoxinus maeandricus
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Description
Pseudophoxinus maeandricus
Common name. Sandıklı spring minnow.
Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Pseudophoxinus in Western Anatolia by: ● lateral line complete / ○ 60–65+2 scales in lateral series / ○ mouth slightly subterminal/ ○ flank without mid-lateral stripe. Size up to 100 mm SL.
Distribution. Türkiye: Karadirek near Sandıklı, an isolated basin flowing underground to Işıklı.
Habitat. Streams among dense vegetation.
Biology. No data.
Conservation status. CR; known only from one small stream under pressure from many threats.
Remarks. After being described from the Işıklı spring, this species was never recorded from there again. There was probably a mistake in labelling of collections.
Further reading. Bogutskaya 1992 (revision, distribution); Küçük et al. 2013 (distribution).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ladiges
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Pseudophoxinus
- Species
- maeandricus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pseudophoxinus maeandricus (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.
- 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