Oxynoemacheilus cyri
Authors/Creators
Description
Oxynoemacheilus cyri
Common name. Kura banded loach.
Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Oxynoemacheilus in Caspian basin by: ● suborbital groove absent in male / ● flank with 12–17 distinct, regularly shaped and set bars / ● caudal very slightly emarginate or truncate. Size up to 74 mm SL.
Distribution. Türkiye: Ardahan plateau in upper Kura drainage.
Habitat. Slow or fast-flowing streams with gravel or rock bottoms and clear water.
Biology. No data.
Conservation status. LC; has a small range in upper Kura drainage; its habitat is intact, the species is common, and no threats are known.
Remarks. It is a phylogenetically isolated species, restricted to a small area at high altitudes. It appears to be endemic to Türkiye and has never been found in downstream Armenia.
Further reading. Berg 1910 (description); Kaya et al. 2020a (distribution).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Berg
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Nemacheilidae
- Genus
- Oxynoemacheilus
- Species
- cyri
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oxynoemacheilus cyri (Berg, 1910) sec. Freyhof, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Jouladeh-Roudbar & Kaya, 2025
References
- Berg, L. S. 1910. Rapport sur une mission zoologique au Cascase en 1909. Zoologicheskago Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk 15: 153-170.
- Kaya, C., E. Baycelebi & D. Turan. 2020 a. Taxonomic assessment and distribution of fishes in upper Kura and Aras River drainages. Zoosystematics and Evolution 96: 325-344. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.96.52241