Oxynoemacheilus

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Oxynoemacheilus
Oxynoemacheilus bergianus

Oxynoemacheilus bergianus

Systematics
Sub-cohort : Ostariophysi
without rank: Otophysa
Order : Carp-like (Cypriniformes)
Subordination : Loach- like (Cobitoidei)
Family : Brook loaches (Nemacheilidae)
Genre : Oxynoemacheilus
Scientific name
Oxynoemacheilus
Bănărescu & Nalbant , 1966

Oxynoemacheilus is a genus of benthic freshwater fish from the family of the brook loaches (Nemacheilidae). Two species arenativeto the Balkan Peninsula , the others to the Middle East .

features

The animals have a cylindrical, elongated body and small eyes that are located high up on the body. The lower mouth is surrounded by 6 barbels which the animals use to search for invertebrates living in the ground to serve as food. The yellow body is more or less strongly marbled. In contrast to the genus Barbatula , which also occurs in Europe , the tail fin ends clearly concave and is supported by 17 soft rays (15–16 in Barbatula ).

species

About 50 species of the genus Oxynoemacheilus are currently known, some of which have only been described in recent years:

Web links

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  1. Jörg Freyhof, Füsun Erk'akan, Cevher Özeren, Anabel Perdices: An overview of the western Palaearctic loach genus Oxynoemacheilus (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) . In: Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters . tape 22 , no. 4 . Pfeil Verlag, Munich December 2011, p. 301-312 .
  2. Maurice Kottelat, Jörg Freyhof: Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes . Ed .: Kottelat. Cornol, 2007, ISBN 978-2-8399-0298-4 .
  3. a b Erk'akan, F. (2012): Two New Oxynoemacheilus (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) Species from Western Turkey. Research Journal of Biological Sciences, 7 (2): 97-101.
  4. a b c Kamangar, BB, Prokofiev, AM, Ghaderi, E. & Nalbant, TT (2014): Stone loaches of Choman River system, Kurdistan, Iran (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 3755 (1): 33-61.
  5. Freyhof, J. (2016): Oxynoemacheilus karunensis , a new species from the Persian Gulf basin (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zotaxa, 4175 (1): 94-100.
  6. Golzarianpour, K., Abdoli, A. & Freyhof, J. (2011): Oxynoemacheilus kiabii , a new loach from Karkheh River drainage, Iran (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 22 (3): 201-208.
  7. Freyhof, J., Geiger, MF, Golzarianpour, K. & Patimar, R. (2016): Sasanidus , a new generic name for Noemacheilus kermanshahensis Bănărescu & Nalbant, with discussion of Ilamnemacheilus and Schistura (Teleostei; Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 4107 (1): 65-80.
  8. Sayyadzadeh, G., Eagderi, S. & Esmaeili, HR (2016): A new loach of the genus Oxynoemacheilus from the Tigris River drainage and its phylogenetic relationships among the nemacheilid fishes (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) in the Middle East based on mtDNA COI sequences. Iranian Journal of Ichthyology, 3 (4): 236-250.