Capoeta ekmekciae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyprinoidei
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores 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.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Capoeta ekmekciae in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.