Oxynoemacheilus ercisianus

Oxynoemacheilus ercisianus
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Nemacheilidae
Genus:	Oxynoemacheilus
Species:	O. ercisianus
Binomial name
Oxynoemacheilus ercisianus (Erk'akan & Kuru, 1986)
Synonyms
Barbatula pulsiz(Krupp, 1992) Nemacheilus pulsiz Krupp, 1992 Orthrias angorae subsp. ercisianus Erk'akan & Kuru, 1986 Oxynoemacheilus ercisiana (Erk'akan & Kuru, 1986) Paracobitis pulsiz(Krupp, 1992) [2]

Oxynoemacheilus ercisianus, the Van loach, ^[1] is a species of stone loach endemic to the Lake Van basin in Eastern Turkey.

In 2018, a population of Oxynoemacheilus ercisianus , was discovered in to live among the microbialite in Lake Van. Until then, Alburnus tarichi was thought to be the only fish to inhabit Lake Van. ^{[3] [4]}

References

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Oxynoemacheilus ercisianus". FishBase . December 2012 version.

1. Freyhof, J. (2014). "Oxynoemacheilus ercisianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2014 e.T19387775A19848268. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19387775A19848268.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
2. Kottelat, M. (2012). "Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement No. 26: 1–199.
3. "New fish species found in Turkey's Lake Van". Hürriyet Daily News. 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2024-12-07.
4. Akkuş, Mustafa; Sarı, Mustafa; Ekmekçi, F. Güler; Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran (2021-03-16). "The discovery of a microbialite-associated freshwater fish in the world's largest saline soda lake, Lake Van (Turkey)". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 97 (1): 181–189. doi: 10.3897/zse.97.62120 . ISSN   1860-0743.