Orontes minnow

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

The Orontes minnow (Pseudophoxinus kervillei) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. [1] It is found in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. [2] It is considered by some taxonomic authorities to be conspecific with the Levantine minnow. [1]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of the French biologist, archaeologist and photographer Henri Gadeau de Kerville (1858–1940), who collected the holotype specimen. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Pseudophoxinus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 3 May 2025.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pseudophoxinus kervillei". FishBase . October 2015 version.
  3. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family LEUCISCIDAE: Subfamily LEUCISCINAE Bonaparte 1835 (European Minnows)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 15 December 2023.


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