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Rutilus sojuchbulagi Abdurakhmanov 1950
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Description
Rutilus sojuchbulagi
Common name. Akstafa spring roach.
Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Rutilus in West Asia by: ● tip of snout at or below horizontal level of lower eye margin / ○ 35–37+2–3 scales in lateral series. Size up to 70 mm SL.
Distribution. Azerbaijan: Springs in Akstafa region in middle Kura drainage.
Habitat. Springs.
Biology. No data.
Conservation status. Extinct; has not been found since it was described in 1940s, despite several visits to its type locality and surrounding waters. Habitats in this area are heavily modified, and this species is unlikely to have survived.
Further reading. Abdurakhmanov 1950 (description); Kuljanishvili et al. 2020 (generic placement).
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 397, DOI: 10.1515/9783111677811, http://zenodo.org/record/17881367
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Abdurakhmanov
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Rutilus
- Species
- sojuchbulagi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rutilus sojuchbulagi Abdurakhmanov, 1950 sec. Freyhof, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Jouladeh-Roudbar & Kaya, 2025
References
- Abdurakhmanov, Y. A. 1950. New species of roach, Rutilus sojuchbulagi sp. nova. Doklady Akademii Nauk Azerbaidzhanskoi SSR 6: 112-116. [in Russian].
- Kuljanishvili, T., G. Epitashvili, J. Freyhof, B. Japoshvili, L. Kalous, B. Levin, N. Mustafayev, S. Ibrahimov, S. Pipoyan & L. Mumladze. 2020. Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 36: 501-514. https://doi.org/10.1111/jai.14038