Aphanius

Aphanius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Cyprinodontidae
Genus: Aphanius
Nardo, 1827
Type species
Aphanius nanus
Nardo, 1827
Synonyms

Lebias Goldfuss, 1820 (invalid name)
Tellia Gervais, 1853
Micromugil Gulia, 1861
Kosswigichthys Sözer, 1942
Anatolichthys Kosswig & Sözer, 1945
Turkichthys Ermin, 1946
Aphaniops Hoedeman, 1951

Aphanius is a genus of pupfishes. Unlike other members of the family which are from the Americas, Aphanius are native to northern Africa, southwestern Asia (as far east as India) and southern Europe. Several species in the genus have very small distributions and are seriously threatened.

Species

There are currently 39 recognized species in this genus:

References

  1. Teimori, A., Esmaeili, H.R., Gholami, Z., Zarei, N. & Reichenbacher, B. (2012): Aphanius arakensis, a new species of tooth-carp (Actinopterygii, Cyprinodontidae) from the endorheic Namak Lake basin in Iran. ZooKeys, 215: 55-76.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Esmaeili, H.R., Teimori, A., Gholami, Z. & Reichenbacher, B. (2014): Two new species of the tooth-carp Aphanius (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) and the evolutionary history of the Iranian inland and inland-related Aphanius species. Zootaxa, 3786 (3): 246–268.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Pfleiderer, S.J., Geiger, M.F. & Herder, F. (2014): Aphanius marassantensis, a new toothcarp from the Kızılırmak drainage in northern Anatolia (Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontidae). Zootaxa, 3887 (5): 569–582.
  4. Teimori, A., Esmaeili, H.R., Erpenbeck, D. & Reichenbacher, B. (2014): A new and unique species of the genus Aphanius Nardo, 1827 (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) from Southern Iran: A case of regressive evolution. Zoologischer Anzeiger – A Journal of Comparative Zoology, 253 (4): 327-337.
  5. Gholami, Z., Esmaeili, H.R., Erpenbeck, D. & Reichenbacher, B. (2014): Phylogenetic analysis of Aphanius from the endorheic Kor River Basin in the Zagros Mountains, South-western Iran (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 52 (2): 130–141.