Pseudophoxinus

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Pseudophoxinus
Pseudophoxinus burduricus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Pseudophoxinus
Bleeker, 1860
Type species
Phoxinellus zeregi
Heckel, 1843
Synonyms
  • Pararhodeus L. S. Berg, 1907
  • Spinophoxinellus M. S. Karaman, 1972

Pseudophoxinus is a genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae. They occur mainly in the eastern Mediterranean region, in particular in and around Asia Minor.

Species

There are currently 27 recognized species in this genus:[1][2]

The Paskóviza (Telestes beoticus) is also included here by some authors.[4]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Pseudophoxinus in FishBase. April 2013 version.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Küçük, F., Gülle, I., Güçlü, S.S., Çiftçi, Y. & Erdogan, Ö. (2013): A new Pseudophoxinus (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) species from Southwestern Anatolia, with remarks on the distribution of the genus in western Anatolia. ZooKeys, 320: 29–41.
  3. Freyhof; Özulug (2010). "Pseudophoxinus hittitorum, a new species of spring minnow from Central Anatolia (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)". Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 21 (3): 239–245. 
  4. FishBase [2009]
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