Oxynoemacheilus kosswigi

Oxynoemacheilus kosswigi, the Paphlagonian loach, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Oxynoemacheilus.[2] This species is found in the Kizilirmak and Yeşilırmak drainages in northern Anatolia, Turkey. It lives in waters which vary from those with a moderately fast flow to almost still waters and prefers muddy or gravel substrates, It remains abundant and widespread within the two drainage systems in which it occurs but it is suspected that a number f populations may have declined or been made locally extinct by the increasing construction of small hydro-electric dams.[1]

Oxynoemacheilus kosswigi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Oxynoemacheilus
Species:
O. kosswigi
Binomial name
Oxynoemacheilus kosswigi
(Erk'akan & Kuru, 1986)
Synonyms
  • Orthrias angorae kosswigi Erk'akan & Kuru, 1986
  • Barbatula kosswigi (Erk'akan & Kuru, 1986)
  • Oxynoemacheilus angorae kosswigi (Erk'akan & Kuru, 1986)

References

  1. Freyhof, J. (2014). "Oxynoemacheilus kosswigi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T19428794A19850065. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19428794A19850065.en. Downloaded on 02 January 2018.
  2. Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.


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