Capoeta ekmekciae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyprinoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cyprinoidei

Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Cyprininae
Tribus: Barbini
Genus: Capoeta
Species: Capoeta ekmekciae

Name

Capoeta ekmekciae Turan, Kottelat, Kirankaya & Engin, 2006

• Holotype: ESFM-PISI 2004-076.
• Paratypes: CMK 18473 (3), 18554 (7); ESFM-PISI 2004-077 (4); FRR 704 (6).

Type locality: Çoruh River, Borçka, 30 kilometers north of Artvin, 41°22'N, 41°41'E, Artvin Province, Turkey.

Etymology: in honor of F. Güler Ekmekçi, for her contribution (e.g., help with fieldwork) to the authors’ research on the fishes of Anatolia. (From The ETYFish project)

References

• Turan, D., Kottelat, M., Kirankaya, Ş.G. & Engin, S. 2006. Capoeta ekmekciae, a new species of cyprinid fish from northeastern Anatolia (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 17(2): 147–156. Abstract (PDF).Reference page. 
• Zareian, H., Esmaeili, H.R., Heidari, A., Khoshkholgh, M. & Mousavi-Sabet, H. 2016. Contribution to the molecular systematics of the genus Capoeta from the south Caspian Sea basin using mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Molecular Biology Research Communications 5(2): 65–75. PDF.Reference page. 

Links

• Capoeta ekmekciae in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Capoeta ekmekciae in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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