Oxynoemacheilus germencicus
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 Kücük Menderes, 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]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Oxynoemacheilus |
| Species: | O. germencicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Oxynoemacheilus germencicus | |
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Barbatula germencica Erk'Akan, Nalbant & Özeren, 2007 | |
Footnotes
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Barbatula germencica" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
- Freyhof, J. (2014). "Oxynoemacheilus germencicus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T19413937A19849664. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19413937A19849664.en. Downloaded on 01 January 2018.
- 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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