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Eidinemacheilus proudlovei
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Description
Eidinemacheilus proudlovei
Common name. Tabin blind loach.
Diagnosis. Distinguished from E. smithi by: ● dorsal adipose crest absent / ● 8+8 or 8+7 branched caudal rays / ● jaws enlarged / ● head canal system fully developed. Size up to 54 mm SL.
Distribution. Iraq: An aquifer near Kanishok in Tabin drainage. Tabin flows into Lesser Zab.
Habitat. Underground waters.
Biology. No data.
Conservation status. LC; as with all subterranean species, its distribution is difficult to understand, and threat levels may be low.
Further reading. Freyhof et al. 2016b (description).
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 470, DOI: 10.1515/9783111677811, http://zenodo.org/record/17881367
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Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Nemacheilidae
- Genus
- Eidinemacheilus
- Species
- proudlovei
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Freyhof, J., Y. S. Abdullah, K. Ararat, H. Ibrahim & M. F. Geiger. 2016 b. Eidinemacheilus proudlovei, a new subterranean loach from Iraqi Kurdistan (Teleostei; Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4173: 225-236. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4173.3.2