Orontes minnow

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Orontes minnow
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Pseudophoxinus
Species:
P. kervillei
Binomial name
Pseudophoxinus kervillei
(Pellegrin, 1911)

The Orontes minnow (Pseudophoxinus kervillei) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. [1] It is found in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.It is considered by some taxonomic authorities to be conspecific with the Levantine minnow.

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References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Pseudophoxinus kervillei" in FishBase . October 2015 version.