Biology:Cobitis fahireae
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Short description: Species of fish
| Cobitis fahireae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cobitidae |
| Genus: | Cobitis |
| Species: | C. fahireae
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| Binomial name | |
| Cobitis fahireae Erk'akan, Atalay-Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998
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| Synonyms | |
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"Cobitis fahirae" (lapsus)[2] | |
The Küçük Menderes spined loach, Cobitis fahireae[2] is a species of loach endemic to Turkey where it occurs in intermittent rivers.[3]
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
- ↑ Freyhof, J. (2014). "Cobitis fahireae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T60797A19008251. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T60797A19008251.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/60797/19008251. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Cobitis fahirae" in FishBase. December 2012 version.
- ↑ "Family COBITIDAE Swainson 1838 (Loaches)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/cobitidae/.
- 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q2212961 entry
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