Squalius kottelati Turan, Yilmaz & Kaya 2009
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Description
Squalius kottelati
Common name. Cilician pike chub.
Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Squalius in eastern Mediterranean basin by: ● lower lip projecting beyond upper lip / ● 9–10½ branched anal rays / ● posterior anal margin straight / ○ 45–47 total lateral-line scales. Size up to 240 mm SL.
Distribution. Türkiye: Seyhan, Ceyhan, and Orontes drainages.
Habitat. A wide range of streams and rivers, mostly in mountain and hill areas. Also, in reservoirs from where they migrate to tributaries to spawn on gravel substrate.
Biology. No data.
Conservation status. LC. Most likely, this species also occurred in Syrian part of Orontes, but it has not been recorded in recent years.
Remarks. Very rare in Seyhan.
Further reading. Turan et al. 2009a (description); Bayçelebi 2020 (distribution).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Turan, Yilmaz & Kaya
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Squalius
- Species
- kottelati
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Squalius kottelati Turan, 2009 sec. Freyhof, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Jouladeh-Roudbar & Kaya, 2025
References
- Turan, D., B. T. Yilmaz & C. Kaya. 2009 a. Squalius kottelati, a new cyprinid species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Orontes River Turkey. Zootaxa 2270: 53-62. https://doi.org/1010.5281/zenodo.190947
- Baycelebi, E. 2020. Distribution and diversity of fish from Seyhan, Ceyhan and Orontes river systems. Zoosystematics and Evolution 96 (2): 747-767.