Oxynoemacheilus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Cypriniformes
Subordo: Cobitoidei

Familia: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Oxynoemacheilus
Synonyms (1): Nun

Species (19): O. anatolica – O. angorae – O. arsanius – O. atili – O. banarescui – O. bergianus – O. bureschi – O. chomanicus – O. eregliensis – O. galilaeus – O. gyndes – O. hanae – O. hazarensis – O. karunensis – O. kaynaki – O. kentritensis – O. kurdistanicus – O. merga – O. mesudae – O. muefiti – O. pindus – O. simavicus – O. theophilii – O. zagrosensis – O. zarzianus
Name

Oxynoemacheilus Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1966: 153
Gender: masculine
Type: Cobitis persa Heckel, 1847
Typification: original designation [also monotypic]

Synonyms

Ilamnemacheilus Coad & Nalbant, 2005 -- Freyhof et al., 2016
Nun Bănărescu & Nalbant in Bănărescu, Nalbant & Goren, 1982 -- Freyhof et al., 2012

References
Primary references

Bănărescu, P. & Nalbant, T.T. 1966: The 3rd Danish Expedition to central Asia. Zoological results 34. Cobitidae (Pisces) from Afghanistan and Iran. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, Kjøbenhavn, 129: 149–186, Pls. 19-21. [Perhaps published in 1967, according to Catalog of Fishes]
Freyhof, J. 2016. Oxynoemacheilus karunensis, a new species from the Persian Gulf basin (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4175(1): 94–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.1.9. Reference page.
Freyhof, J. & Abdullah, Y.S. 2017. Two new species of Oxynoemacheilus from the Tigris drainage in Iraqi Kurdistan (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4238(1): 73–87. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.1.5. Reference page.
Freyhof, J. & Geiger, M.F. 2017. Oxynoemacheilus zarzianus, a new loach from the Lesser Zab River drainage in Iraqi Kurdistan (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4273(2): 258–270. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.2.6. Reference page.
Freyhof, J., Kaya, C. & Turan, D. 2017. Oxynoemacheilus kentritensis, a new species from the upper Tigris drainage in Turkey with remarks on O. frenatus (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4258(6): 551–560. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4258.6.4. Reference page.
Freyhof, J. & Özuluğ, M. 2017. Oxynoemacheilus hazarensis, a new species from Lake Hazar in Turkey, with remarks on O. euphraticus (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4247(4): 378–390. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.4.2. Reference page.

Additional references

Freyhof, J., Erk'akan, F., Özeren, C. & Perdices, A. 2012. An overview of the western Palaearctic loach genus Oxynoemacheilus (Teleosei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 22(4)[2011]: 301–312. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.
Freyhof, J., Geiger, M.F., Golzarianpour, K. & Patimar, R. 2016. Sasanidus, a new generic name for Noemacheilus kermanshahensis Bănărescu & Nalbant, with discussion of Ilamnemacheilus and Schistura (Teleostei; Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4107(1): 65–80. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4107.1.3. Reference page.
Freyhof, J., Kaya, C., Turan, D. & Geiger, M.F. 2019. Review of the Oxynoemacheilus tigris group with the description of two new species from the Euphrates drainage (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4612(1): 029–057. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4612.1.2. Reference page.
Kamangar, B.B., Prokofiev, A.M., Ghaderi, E. & Nalbant, T.T. 2014. Stone loaches of Choman River system, Kurdistan, Iran (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 3755(1): 33–61. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3755.1.2 Reference page.

Links

ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Oxynoemacheilus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Oxynoemacheilus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

Oxynoemacheilus is a genus of fish in the family Nemacheilidae found in Europe and Western Asia.[2][3]
Species

There are currently 62 recognized species in this genus:[3]

Oxynoemacheilus anatolicus Erk'Akan, Özeren & Nalbant, 2008
Oxynoemacheilus angorae (Steindachner, 1897)
Oxynoemacheilus araxensis (Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1978)
Oxynoemacheilus argyrogramma (Heckel, 1847)
Oxynoemacheilus banarescui (Delmastro, 1982)
Oxynoemacheilus bergianus (Derjavin, 1934)
Oxynoemacheilus brandtii (Kessler, 1877)
Oxynoemacheilus bureschi (Drensky, 1928)
Oxynoemacheilus ceyhanensis (Erk'Akan, Nalbant & Özeren, 2007)
Oxynoemacheilus chomanicus Kamangar, Prokofiev, Ghaderi & Nalbant, 2014[4]
Oxynoemacheilus cinicus (Erk'Akan, Nalbant & Özeren, 2007)
Oxynoemacheilus cyri (L. S. Berg, 1910)
Oxynoemacheilus ercisianus (Erk'Akan & Kuru, 1986)
Oxynoemacheilus erdali (Erk'Akan, Nalbant & Özeren, 2007)
Oxynoemacheilus eregliensis (Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1978)
Oxynoemacheilus evreni (Erk'Akan, Nalbant & Özeren, 2007)
Oxynoemacheilus fatsaensis (Saygun, Ağdamar & Özuluğ, 2021)
Oxynoemacheilus frenatus (Heckel, 1843)
Oxynoemacheilus galilaeus (Günther, 1864)
Oxynoemacheilus germencicus (Erk'Akan, Nalbant & Özeren, 2007)
Oxynoemacheilus hamwii (Krupp & W. Schneider, 1991)
Oxynoemacheilus hazarensis Freyhof & Özuluǧ, 2017
Oxynoemacheilus insignis (Heckel, 1843)
Oxynoemacheilus karunensis Freyhof, 2016[5]
Oxynoemacheilus kaynaki Erk'Akan, Özeren & Nalbant, 2008
Oxynoemacheilus kiabii Golzarianpour, Abdoli & Freyhof, 2011[6]
Oxynoemacheilus kosswigi (Erk'Akan & Kuru, 1986)
Oxynoemacheilus kurdistanicus Kamangar, Prokofiev, Ghaderi & Nalbant, 2014[4]
Oxynoemacheilus lenkoranensis (Abdurakhmanov, 1962)
Oxynoemacheilus leontinae (Lortet, 1883)
Oxynoemacheilus longipinnis (Coad & Nalbant, 2005)[1]
Oxynoemacheilus mediterraneus (Erk'Akan, Nalbant & Özeren, 2007)
Oxynoemacheilus merga (Krynicki, 1840)
Oxynoemacheilus namiri (Krupp & W. Schneider, 1991)
Oxynoemacheilus panthera (Heckel, 1843)
Oxynoemacheilus parvinae Sayyadzadeh, Eagderi & Esmaeili, 2016[7]
Oxynoemacheilus paucilepis (Erk'Akan, Nalbant & Özeren, 2007)
Oxynoemacheilus persa (Heckel, 1847)
Oxynoemacheilus phoxinoides (Erk'Akan, Nalbant & Özeren, 2007)
Oxynoemacheilus pindus (Economidis, 2005)
Oxynoemacheilus samanticus (Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1978)
Oxynoemacheilus seyhanensis (Bănărescu, 1968)
Oxynoemacheilus seyhanicola (Erk'Akan, Nalbant & Özeren, 2007)
Oxynoemacheilus shehabi Freyhof & Geiger, 2021[8]
Oxynoemacheilus simavicus (Balık & Bănărescu, 1978)
Oxynoemacheilus theophilii Stoumboudi, Kottelat & Barbieri, 2006
Oxynoemacheilus tigris (Heckel, 1843)
Oxynoemacheilus tongiorgii (Nalbant & Bianco, 1998)
Oxynoemacheilus zagrosensis Kamangar, Prokofiev, Ghaderi & Nalbant, 2014[4]

References

Freyhof, J., Geiger, M.F., Golzarianpour, K. & Patimar, R. (2016): Sasanidus, a new generic name for Noemacheilus kermanshahensis Bănărescu & Nalbant, with discussion of Ilamnemacheilus and Schistura (Teleostei; Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 4107 (1): 65-80.
Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived 2016-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Oxynoemacheilus in FishBase. January 2024 version.
Kamangar, B.B., Prokofiev, A.M., Ghaderi, E. & Nalbant, T.T. (2014): Stone loaches of Choman River system, Kurdistan, Iran (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa, 3755 (1): 33–61.
Freyhof, J. (2016): Oxynoemacheilus karunensis, a new species from the Persian Gulf basin (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zotaxa, 4175 (1): 94-100.
Golzarianpour, K., Abdoli, A. & Freyhof, J. (2011): Oxynoemacheilus kiabii, a new loach from Karkheh River drainage, Iran (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 22 (3): 201-208.
Sayyadzadeh, G., Eagderi, S. & Esmaeili, H.R. (2016): A new loach of the genus Oxynoemacheilus from the Tigris River drainage and its phylogenetic relationships among the nemacheilid fishes (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) in the Middle East based on mtDNA COI sequences. Iranian Journal of Ichthyology, 3 (4): 236–250.
Freyhof, Jörg; Geiger, Matthias F. (2021-01-18). "Oxynoemacheilus shehabi , a new nemacheilid loach from the upper Orontes in southern Syria (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)". Zootaxa. 4908 (4): 571–583. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4908.4.9. ISSN 1175-5334. S2CID 232338609.