South Caucasian gudgeon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Gobioninae
Genus: Romanogobio
Species:
R. macropterus
Binomial name
Romanogobio macropterus
(Kamensky, 1901)
Synonyms
  • Gobio macropterus

The South Caucasian gudgeon (Romanogobio macropterus) is a species of cyprinid fish found in the Kura and Aras drainages flowing to the southwest Caspian Sea from headwaters in Turkey down to lower reaches in Azerbaijan and Iran.[2]

This species reaches a length of 5.0 cm (2.0 in).[3]

Etymology

The fishes name means large finned.[4]


References

  1. Freyhof, J. (2014). "Romanogobio macropterus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T19449302A19849786. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19449302A19849786.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. Naseka, A.M. and J. Freyhof, 2004. Romanogobio parvus, a new gudgeon from River Kuban, southern Russia (Cyprinidae, Gobioninae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 15(1):17-23.
  3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2016). "Romanogobio macropterus" in FishBase. November 2016 version.
  4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family GOBIONIDAE Bleeker 1863 (Freshwater Gudgeons)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 27 December 2023.


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