Kura loach
| Kura loach | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Oxynoemacheilus |
| Species: | O. brandtii |
| Binomial name | |
| Oxynoemacheilus brandtii (Kessler, 1877) | |
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The Kura loach (Oxynoemacheilus brandtii), also known as the Caspian sportive loach, is an Asian species of freshwater fish, occurring in the drainage basin of the Kura in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Iran. It prefers fast to very fast flowing streams and rivers which have a gravel or rocky substrate and is most frequently recorded among riffles and rapids in the middle of stream. It is widespread and locally abundant but populations have been lost due to the construction of dams for hydroelectric power and for abstraction.[1] The specific bane honours the German naturalist Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802-1879), who provided Karl Kessler with most of the specimens he used to describe this species.[2]
Footnotes
- 1 2 Freyhof, J. (2014). "Oxynoemacheilus brandtii". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T19387030A19849511. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19387030A19849511.en. Downloaded on 31 December 2017.
- ↑ "Order CYPRINIFORMES (part 13): Nemacheilidae" (PDF). The ETYFish Project. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Oxynoemacheilus brandtii" in FishBase. April 2014 version.
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