| Schizothorax zarudnyi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Schizothoracinae |
| Genus: | Schizothorax |
| Species: | S. zarudnyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Schizothorax zarudnyi (A. M. Nikolskii, 1897) [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Schizothorax zarudnyi is a species of cyprinid freshwater fish from Iran and Afghanistan, [1] where restricted to lakes in the Sistan Basin. [2]
The fish is named in honor of Nikolai Zarudny (1859-1919), a Ukrainian-Russian explorer and ornithologist, who collected the holotype specimens. [3]
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