Pseudophoxinus

Pseudophoxinus
Burdur spring minnow, (Pseudophoxinus burduricus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
Subfamily:	Leuciscinae
Genus:	Pseudophoxinus Bleeker, 1860 [1]
Type species
Phoxinellus zeregi Heckel, 1843 [1]
Synonyms [1]
Pararhodeus Berg, 1907 Spinophoxinellus M. S. Karaman (sr), 1972

Pseudophoxinus is a genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Leuciscinae of the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. These fishes are found in Western Asia.

Species

Pseudophoxinus' contains the following valid species: ^[2]

• Pseudophoxinus alii Küçük, 2007 (Pamphylian spring minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus anatolicus (Hankó (hu), 1925) (Anatolian minnow, giant spring minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus antalyae Bogutskaya, 1992 (Antalya spring minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus battalgilae Bogutskaya, 1997 (Tuz Lake spring minnow, Beysehir minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus burduricus Küçük, Gülle, Güçlü, Çiftçi & Erdoğan, 2013 (Burdur spring minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus caralis (Battalgil, 1942)
• Pseudophoxinus cilicicus Saç, Özuluğü, Geiger & Freyhof, 2019 ^[3]
• Pseudophoxinus crassus (Ladiges, 1960) (Fat spring minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus drusensis (Pellegrin, 1933) (Drusian spring minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus elizavetae Bogutskaya, Küçük & Atalay, 2006 (Sultan Sazlığı minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus evliyae Freyhof & Özuluğ, 2010 (Lycian spring minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus fahrettini Freyhof & Özuluğ, 2010 (Pisidian spring minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus firati Bogutskaya, Küçük & Atalay, 2006 (Euphrates spring minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus handlirschi (Pietschmann, 1933) (Handlirsch’s minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus hasani Krupp, 1992 (Marqīyah spring minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus hittitorum Freyhof & Özuluğ, 2010 (Hittitic spring minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus iconii Küçük, Gülle & Güçlü, 2016
• Pseudophoxinus kervillei (Pellegrin, 1911) (Orontes minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus libani (Lortet, 1883) (Levantine minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus maeandri (Ladiges), 1960) (Apamean spring minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus maeandricus (Ladiges, 1960) (Sandıklı spring minnow, Menderes brook minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus mehmeti Ekmekçi, Atalay, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Turan & Küçük, 2015
• Pseudophoxinus ninae Freyhof & Özuluğ, 2006 (Onaç spring minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus syriacus (Lortet, 1883) (Barada spring minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus turani Küçük & Güçlü, 2014 (Turan's spring minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus zekayi Bogutskaya, Küçük & Atalay, 2006 (Ceyhan spring minnow)
• Pseudophoxinus zeregi (Heckel, 1843) (Levantine spring minnow)

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Leuciscinae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 2 May 2025.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Pseudophoxinus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 2 May 2025.
3. Saç, G., Özuluğ, M., Geiger, M.F. & Freyhof, J. (2019), Pseudophoxinus cilicicus, a new spring minnow from southern Anatolia (Teleostei: Leuciscidae) . Zootaxa, 4671 (1), 105–118. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4671.1.8