Seminemacheilus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Seminemacheilus
Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1995
Type species
Nemachilus lendlii
Hankó, 1924

Seminemacheilus is a genus of stone loaches native to western Asia with species known from Turkey and Iran.

Species

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

  • Seminemacheilus ispartensis Erk'akan, Nalbant & Özeren, 2007
  • Seminemacheilus lendlii (Hankó, 1925) (Anatolian loach)
  • Seminemacheilus ahmeti (Sungur, Jalili, Eagderi & Çiçek 2018) (Ahmeti loach)[2]

References

  1. Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
  2. Sungur, S., Jalili, P., Eagderi, S., Çiçek, E. (2018): Seminemacheilus ahmeti, a new species of Nemachelid from Sultan Marshes, Turkey. FishTaxa Vol. 3, No. 2: 466-473.


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