Alburnoides nicolausi, is a fish
species of the family
Cyprinidae
Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family and the largest verte ...
, known from Iran. It can be differentiated from its cogenerates by differences in
fin ray and
vertebral counts, together with other morphological characters.
[Bogutskaya, N. G., and B. W. Coad. "A review of vertebral and fin-ray counts in the genus Alburnoides (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) with a description of six new species." Zoosystematica Rossica 18.1 (2009): 126-173.]
References
Further reading
*Turan, Davut, et al. "Alburnoides manyasensis (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae), a new species of cyprinid fish from Manyas Lake basin, Turkey." ZooKeys 276 (2013): 85.
*Roudbar, Arash Jouladeh, et al. "A molecular approach to the genus Alburnoides using COI sequences data set and the description of a new species,
A. damghani, from the Damghan River system (the Dasht-e Kavir Basin, Iran)(Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae)." ZooKeys 579 (2016): 157.
Alburnoides
Taxa named by Nina Gidalevna Bogutskaya
Taxa named by Brian W. Coad
Fish described in 2009
Endemic fauna of Iran
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