Oxynoemacheilus seyhanensis
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Oxynoemacheilus seyhanensis
Common name. Lycaonian loach.
Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Oxynoemacheilus in Marmara and Black Sea basin as well as in Cilicia and northern Levant by: ● caudal slightly emarginate, almost truncate / ○ lateral line complete / ○ flank behind dorsal base covered by scales / ○ suborbital groove absent in male / ○ no prominent dorsal crest on caudal peduncle. Size up to 84 mm SL.
Distribution. Türkiye: Kızılırmak and Yeşilırmak drainages, also in upper and middle Seyhan, and in Çerkeş, in upper Filyos drainage. Recorded from Sultan marshes, where it entered through Zamantı tunnel.
Habitat. Moderately fast-flowing water in streams with gravel or mud substrate.
Biology. No data.
Conservation status. LC.
Remarks. Oxynoemacheilus kosswigi is a synonym.
Further reading. Bănărescu 1968 (description); Erk’akan & Kuru 1986 (description as O. kosswigi); Sungur 2020 (synonyms).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Banarescu
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Nemacheilidae
- Genus
- Oxynoemacheilus
- Species
- seyhanensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oxynoemacheilus seyhanensis (Banarescu, 1968) sec. Freyhof, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Jouladeh-Roudbar & Kaya, 2025
References
- Banarescu, P. M. 1968. Susswasserfische der Turkei. Erganzende Angaben zu Teil 2: Cobitidae. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 65: 353-356, Pl. 3.
- Erk'akan, F. & M. Kuru. 1986. A new noemacheilinae loach subspecies from the Lake Van basin, Turkey (Osteichthyes, Cobitidae). Doga Turk Biyoloji Dergisi 10: 160-162.
- Sungur, S. 2020. Oxynoemacheilus kosswigi a junior synonym of O. seyhanensis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Iranian Journal of Sciences and Technology, Transactions A: Science 44: 563-573. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40995-020-00857-9