Cobitis_fahireae

<i>Cobitis fahireae</i>

Cobitis fahireae

Species of fish

The Küçük Menderes spined loach, Cobitis fahireae[2] is a species of loach endemic to Turkey where it occurs in intermittent rivers.[3]

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Etymology

The fish is named in memory of according to the authors “one of the greatest ichthyologists of Turkey,” Fahire Battalgil[4]

Size

This species reaches a length of 10.4 cm (4.1 in)

References

  1. [1]
    Freyhof, J. (2014). "Cobitis fahireae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T60797A19008251. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T60797A19008251.en. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  2. [2]
    Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived February 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
  3. [3]
    Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2012). "Cobitis fahirae" in FishBase. December 2012 version.
  4. [4]
    Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family COBITIDAE Swainson 1838 (Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  • Erk'akan, F., F.G. Atalay-Ekmekçi and T.T. Nalbant, 1998. Four new species and one new subspecies of the genus Cobitis (Pisces: Ostariophysi: Cobitidae) from Turkey. Turk. J. Zool. 22:9-15.



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