Oxynoemacheilus tongiorgii
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Description
Oxynoemacheilus tongiorgii
Common name. Kor loach.
Diagnosis. Distinguished from Oxynoemacheilus persa, the only other congeneric in Iranian Kor and Mond drainages by: ● caudal slightly emarginate or truncate / ● shallow dorsal crest on caudal peduncle. Size up to 62 mm SL.
Distribution. Iran: Kor drainage.
Habitat. Moderately fast-flowing to standing waters of springs and streams with muddy bottoms.
Biology. No data.
Conservation status. EN; appears to be declining within its very small range.
Remarks. Previously thought to be a species of Seminemacheilus, but molecular data show that it belongs to Oxynoemacheilus. Originally described from Kol drainage, which is a mistake.
Further reading. Nalbant & Bianco 1998 (description); Freyhof et al. 2011 (generic position).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Nalbant & Bianco
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Nemacheilidae
- Genus
- Oxynoemacheilus
- Species
- tongiorgii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oxynoemacheilus tongiorgii (Nalbant, 1998) sec. Freyhof, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Jouladeh-Roudbar & Kaya, 2025
References
- Nalbant, T. T. & P. G. Bianco. 1998. The loaches of Iran and adjacent regions with description of six new species (Cobitoidea). Italian Journal of Zoology 65 (Suppl.): 109-123. https://doi.org/10.1080/11250009809386803
- Freyhof, J., F. Erk'akan, C. Ozeren & A. Perdices. 2011. An overview of the western Palaearctic loach genus Oxynoemacheilus (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 22: 301-312.