Alburnoides gmelini

Alburnoides gmelini
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
Subfamily:	Leuciscinae
Genus:	Alburnoides
Species:	A. gmelini
Binomial name
Alburnoides gmelini Bogutskaya & Coad, 2009

Alburnoides gmelini, the Dagestan spirlin, is a fish species of the family Leuciscidae, known from the western Caspian coast of southern Russia. It can be differentiated from its cogenerates by differences in fin ray and vertebral counts, together with other morphological characters. ^[2] The specific name honours Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, a Russian-German naturalist who travelled through the River Don area and the Caucasus region and along the western and southern Caspian Sea coasts between 1768 and 1774. ^[3]

References

1. Freyhof, J. (2011). "Alburnoides gmelini". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2011 e.T184455A8279177. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T184455A8279177.en . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
2. Bogutskaya, N. G., and B. W. Coad. "A review of vertebral and fin-ray counts in the genus Alburnoides (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) with a description of six new species." Zoosystematica Rossica 18.1 (2009): 126-173.
3. Rainer Froese; Daniel Pauly, eds. (2017). "Alburnoides gmelini Bogutskaya & Coad, 2009". Fishbase . Retrieved 5 December 2017.

Further reading

• Naseka, A. M. "Zoogeographical freshwater divisions of the Caucasus as a part of the West Asian Transitional Region." Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences 314.4 (2010): 469–492.