Biology:Turan's minnow
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Short description: Species of fish
| Turan's minnow | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Genus: | Pseudophoxinus |
| Species: | P. turani
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudophoxinus turani Küçük & Güçlü, 2014
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Turan's minnow (Pseudophoxinus turani) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to Incesu Spring in the Orontes River drainage in Turkey.[1]
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of Turkish ichthyologist Davut Turan, because of his contributions to the knowledge of the fishes of Anatolia.[2]
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Pseudophoxinus turani" in FishBase. October 2015 version.
- ↑ "Family LEUCISCIDAE: Subfamily LEUCISCINAE Bonaparte 1835 (European Minnows)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/leuciscinae/.
Wikidata ☰ Q21326397 entry
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