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Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Freshwater; demersal. Subtropical
Asia: Turkey.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 10.3 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 93777)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
This species is distinguished from other species of the O. angorae group by the following characters, none of which are unique: differs from O. anatolicus and O. angorae by having the pre-dorsal back with blotches or a dark-brown, fine, mottled pattern, without saddles (vs. pre-dorsal back usually with 3-4 saddles), with a few isolated scales on the flank in front of the dorsal-fin origin (vs. flank completely covered by scales), caudal peduncle depth 1.5-1.9 times in its length (vs. 1.3-1.6 in O. anatolicus); this species with the flank usually with large, isolated, irregularly set and shaped blotches forming a marbled pattern (vs. flank with small and confluent, regularly set and shaped blotches and spots forming a marbled or mottled pattern in O. anatolicus while flank with a midlateral series of blotches usually fused to a stripe in O. angorae), and no depigmented stripe along the anterior part of the lateral line (vs. usually present in O. angorae) (Ref. 131061).
Cross section: oval.
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Yoğurtçuoğlu, B., C. Kaya and J. Freyhof, 2022. Revision of the Oxynoemacheilus angorae group with the description of two new species (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 5133 (no. 4): 451-485. (Ref. 131061)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)
Vulnerable (VU) (A2c+3c; B2ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v)); Date assessed: 09 January 2013
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: of no interest
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