Oxynoemacheilus germencicus
| Oxynoemacheilus germencicus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Oxynoemacheilus |
| Species: | O. germencicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Oxynoemacheilus germencicus (, Nalbant & , 2007)
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| Synonyms | |
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Barbatula germencica Erk'Akan, Nalbant & Özeren, 2007 | |
Oxynoemacheilus germencicus, the Carian loach, is a species of Cypriniformes fish in the genus Oxynoemacheilus.[2] It is known only from the Büyük Menderes River and lower Gediz River in western Anatolia, it probably also occurred in the , a river which sits between the Büyük Menderes and Gediz, and has been extirpated from that river by pollution and abstraction. It remains widespread and locally abundant in the other two rivers but the populations have declined and the species is threatened by climate change reducing rainfall in the area and human activities such as damming and water abstraction as well as pollution>[1]
Footnotes[]
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Barbatula germencica" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
- ^ a b Freyhof, J. (2014). "Oxynoemacheilus germencicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T19413937A19849664. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19413937A19849664.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ 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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- IUCN Red List vulnerable species
- Nemacheilidae
- Endemic fauna of Turkey
- Fish described in 2007
- Taxa named by Füsun Erk'akan
- Taxa named by Teodor T. Nalbant
- Taxa named by Cevher Özeren
- Cypriniformes stubs