Pseudophoxinus

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Pseudophoxinus
Pseudophoxinus burduricus

Pseudophoxinus burduricus

Systematics
without rank: Otophysa
Order : Carp-like (Cypriniformes)
Subordination : Carp fish-like (Cyprinoidei)
Family : White fish (Leuciscidae)
Subfamily : Leuciscinae
Genre : Pseudophoxinus
Scientific name
Pseudophoxinus
Bleeker , 1860

Pseudophoxinus is a genus of freshwater fish within the carp family (Cyprinidae). It occurs in Anatolia and the Levant .

features

Pseudophoxinus - species are 6 to 23 cm long and have relatively squat a laterally only slightly flattened body. The mouth is terminal or below and without barbels . The five to six fangs are arranged in a row. The dorsal fin is supported by 3 unbranched and 6 to 8 branched soft rays. The short anal fin has 3 unbranched and 5 to 9 branched soft rays. The last unbranched ray of the dorsal fin is neither thickened nor elongated. The sideline can be completely or incompletely formed. The scales are medium in size.

species

Fishbase currently lists (November 2017) 29 species in the genus:

Pseudophoxinus callensis
Pseudophoxinus ninae

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedhelm Krupp, Wolfgang Schneider: The fishes of Jordan River drainage Basin and Azraq Oasis. January 1989, Fauna of Saudi Arabia, v. 10; pp. 347-416 (1989), p. 375.
  2. Pseudophoxinus on Fishbase.org (English)

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