Aphanius
| Aphanius Temporal range:
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| Aphanius fasciatus | |
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| Aphanius mesopotamicus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Cyprinodontidae |
| Genus: | Aphanius Nardo, 1827 |
| Type species | |
| Aphanius nanus Nardo, 1827
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Lebias Goldfuss, 1820 (invalid name) | |
Aphanius is a genus of pupfishes. Unlike other members of the family which are from the Americas, Aphanius species are native to northern Africa, southwestern Asia (as far east as India) and southern Europe. Several species in the genus have very small distributions and are seriously threatened.
Fossil record[]
Fossils of Aphanius are found in strata of the Pleistocene of Italy (age range: from 11.608 to 5.332 million years ago.).[1]
Fossil of Aphanius crassicaudus
Species[]
The 39 recognized species in this genus are:
- Aphanius almiriensis Kottelat, & , 2007
- Aphanius anatoliae , 1912 (Lake Tuz toothcarp)
- Aphanius apodus Gervais, 1853
- Aphanius arakensis , , , & (de), 2012 [2]
- Aphanius asquamatus , 1942 (scaleless killifish)
- Aphanius baeticus , & , 2002
- †Aphanius crassicaudus Agassiz 1839[3]
- Aphanius danfordii Boulenger, 1890 (Sultan Sazlığı toothcarp)
- Aphanius darabensis , , & 2014 [4]
- Aphanius dispar Rüppell, 1829
- A. d. dispar Rüppell, 1829 (Arabian toothcarp)
- A. d. richardsoni Boulenger, 1907 (Dead Sea toothcarp)
- Aphanius farsicus , & , 2011 (Farsi toothcarp)
- Aphanius fasciatus Valenciennes, 1821 (Mediterranean killifish)
- , 1948 [5]
- , , & , 2014 [6]
- , 1929
- Aphanius iberus (Valenciennes, 1846) (Spanish toothcarp)
- , 1948 [5]
- , & , 2006
- , , & , 2014 [4]
- Akşiray, 1948 [5]
- , & , 2014 (Kızılırmak toothcarp) [5]
- Aphanius mento Heckel, 1843 (iridescent toothcarp)
- Akşiray, 1948 [5]
- Aphanius mesopotamicus Coad, 2009 (Mesopotamian toothcarp) [7]
- , 1910
- Heckel, 1847
- Akşiray, 1955 [5]
- Aphanius saourensis , & , 2006 (Sahara aphanius)
- Aphanius shirini , , & , 2014 [8]
- Aphanius sirhani , & , 1983 (Azraq toothcarp)
- Aphanius sophiae Heckel, 1847
- †Aphanius splendens Kosswig & , 1945 (Gölçük toothcarp)
- Aphanius stiassnyae & , 2001 (Lake Afdera killifish)
- Aphanius sureyanus , 1937 (Burdur toothcarp)
- Aphanius transgrediens , 1946 (Acıgöl toothcarp)
- Aphanius villwocki Hrbek & Wildekamp, 2003 (Sakarya toothcarp)
- Aphanius vladykovi Coad, 1988
References[]
- ^ Paleobiology Database
- ^ Teimori, A., Esmaeili, H.R., Gholami, Z., Zarei, N. & Reichenbacher, B. (2012): Aphanius arakensis, a new species of tooth-carp (Actinopterygii, Cyprinodontidae) from the endorheic Namak Lake basin in Iran. ZooKeys, 215: 55-76.
- ^ A. crassicaudus at Fossilworks
- ^ a b Esmaeili, H.R., Teimori, A., Gholami, Z. & Reichenbacher, B. (2014): Two new species of the tooth-carp Aphanius (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) and the evolutionary history of the Iranian inland and inland-related Aphanius species. Zootaxa, 3786 (3): 246–268.
- ^ a b c d e f Pfleiderer, S.J., Geiger, M.F. & Herder, F. (2014): Aphanius marassantensis, a new toothcarp from the Kızılırmak drainage in northern Anatolia (Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontidae). Zootaxa, 3887 (5): 569–582.
- ^ Teimori, A., Esmaeili, H.R., Erpenbeck, D. & Reichenbacher, B. (2014): A new and unique species of the genus Aphanius Nardo, 1827 (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) from Southern Iran: A case of regressive evolution. Zoologischer Anzeiger – A Journal of Comparative Zoology, 253 (4): 327-337.
- ^ Alavi-Yeganeh, M.S., Keivany, Y., Seyfabadi, J., Kazemi, B. & Wallis, G.P. (2014): Taxonomic validity and phylogenetic relationships of a newly-described tooth-carp, Aphanius mesopotamicus Coad, 2009 (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae). Zootaxa, 3780 (3): 594–600.
- ^ Gholami, Z., Esmaeili, H.R., Erpenbeck, D. & Reichenbacher, B. (2014): Phylogenetic analysis of Aphanius from the endorheic Kor River Basin in the Zagros Mountains, South-western Iran (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 52 (2): 130–141.
Categories:
- Aphanius
- Cyprinodontidae
- Freshwater fish genera
- Taxa named by Giovanni Domenico Nardo