''Aphanius'' is a
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of
pupfishes. Unlike other members of the
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which are from the
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, ''Aphanius'' species are native to northern Africa, southwestern Asia (as far east as India) and southern Europe. Several species in the genus have very small distributions and are seriously threatened.
Fossil record
Fossils of ''Aphanius'' are found in strata of the
Pleistocene
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of Italy (age range: from 11.608 to 5.332 million years ago.).
Species
The 39 recognized species in this genus are:
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Aphanius almiriensis
The Almiri toothcarp or Almiri killifish (''Aphanius almiriensis'') is a species of pupfish belonging to the family Cyprinodontidae. It can be found in a handful of brackish springs and marshes in the Peloponnese, Greece. Due to one of the spring ...
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Aphanius anatoliae
''Aphanius anatoliae'', the Anatolian giant killifish or Lake Tuz toothcarp, is a species of fish in the family Cyprinodontidae. It is endemic to Turkey. It is known from freshwater springs and streams around Lake Tuz, as well as from the Lake ...
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Leidenfrost, 1912 (Lake Tuz toothcarp)
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Aphanius apodus
''Aphanius apodus'' is a species of fish in the family Cyprinodontidae. This species is endemic to springs and streams in the Atlas mountains of Algeria, between Batna and Constantine. ''A. apodus'' was described as ''Lebias apodus'' in 1853 b ...
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Gervais, 1853
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Aphanius arakensis
The Arak toothcarp (''Aphanius arakensis'') is a species of pupfish belonging to the family Cyprinodontidae. Discovered in 2012, it is endemic to the Namak Lake basin in Iran.
Description
Male fish reach approximately 32mm in length, whereas ...
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''Aphanius arakensis,'' a new species of tooth-carp (Actinopterygii, Cyprinodontidae) from the endorheic Namak Lake basin in Iran.
''ZooKeys, 215: 55-76.''
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Aphanius asquamatus
The scaleless killifish or Hazar toothcarp (''Aphanius asquamatus'') is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinodontidae. It is endemic to Lake Hazar in Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, ...
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Sözer, 1942 (scaleless killifish)
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Aphanius baeticus
''Aphanius baeticus'' is a species of fish in the family Cyprinodontidae. It is endemic to a small part of Southern Spain, between the Gulf of Cadiz and Huelva. Its natural habitats are rivers, estuarine waters, and coastal saline lagoons. It ...
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Aphanius crassicaudus
''Aphanius crassicaudus'' is an extinct species of fish in the family Cyprinodontidae. It lived in the Late Miocene in brackish and hypersaline
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* ''Aphanius danfordii
''Aphanius danfordii'', the Kızılırmak toothcarp or Sultan Sazlığı toothcarp, is a species of killifish belonging to the family Cyprinodontidae. It is endemic to the Kızılırmak River and the upper Seyhan River drainage systems and is now ...
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, 1890 (Sultan Sazlığı toothcarp)
* '' Aphanius darabensis'' Esmaeili, Teimori, Gholami & Reichenbacher 2014 [Esmaeili, H.R., Teimori, A., Gholami, Z. & Reichenbacher, B. (2014): Two new species of the tooth-carp ''Aphanius'' (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) and the evolutionary history of the Iranian inland and inland-related ''Aphanius'' species. ''Zootaxa, 3786 (3): 246–268.'']
* '' Aphanius dispar'' Rüppell, 1829
** '' A. d. dispar'' Rüppell, 1829 (Arabian toothcarp)
** '' A. d. richardsoni'' Boulenger, 1907 (Dead Sea toothcarp)
* '' Aphanius farsicus'' Teimori, Esmaeili & Reichenbacher, 2011 (Farsi toothcarp)
* ''Aphanius fasciatus
The Mediterranean killifish, Mediterranean banded killifish or South European toothcarp (''Aphanius fasciatus'') is a species of fish in the family Cyprinodontidae. It is found in Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egyp ...
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, 1821 (Mediterranean killifish)
* '' Aphanius fontinalis'' Akşiray, 1948 [
* '' Aphanius furcatus'' Teimori, Esmaeili, Erpenbeck & Reichenbacher, 2014 ][Teimori, A., Esmaeili, H.R., Erpenbeck, D. & Reichenbacher, B. (2014): A new and unique species of the genus ''Aphanius'' Nardo, 1827 (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) from Southern Iran: A case of regressive evolution. ''Zoologischer Anzeiger – A Journal of Comparative Zoology, 253 (4): 327-337.'']
* '' Aphanius ginaonis'' Holly
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, 1929
* '' Aphanius iberus'' (Valenciennes
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, 1846) (Spanish toothcarp)
* '' Aphanius iconii'' Akşiray, 1948 [
* '' Aphanius isfahanensis'' Hrbek, Keivany & Coad, 2006
* '' Aphanius kavirensis'' Esmaeili, Teimori, Gholami & Reichenbacher, 2014 ][
* '' Aphanius maeandricus'' Akşiray, 1948 ][
* '' Aphanius marassantensis'' Pfleiderer, Geiger & ]Herder
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, 2014 (Kızılırmak toothcarp) [Pfleiderer, S.J., Geiger, M.F. & Herder, F. (2014): ''Aphanius marassantensis'', a new toothcarp from the Kızılırmak drainage in northern Anatolia (Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontidae). ''Zootaxa, 3887 (5): 569–582.'']
* '' Aphanius mento'' Heckel, 1843 (iridescent toothcarp)
* '' Aphanius meridionalis'' Akşiray, 1948 [
* '' Aphanius mesopotamicus'' Coad, 2009 (Mesopotamian toothcarp) ][Alavi-Yeganeh, M.S., Keivany, Y., Seyfabadi, J., Kazemi, B. & Wallis, G.P. (2014): Taxonomic validity and phylogenetic relationships of a newly-described tooth-carp, ''Aphanius mesopotamicus'' Coad, 2009 (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae). ''Zootaxa, 3780 (3): 594–600.'']
* '' Aphanius pluristriatus'' J. T. Jenkins, 1910
* '' Aphanius punctatus'' Heckel, 1847
* '' Aphanius saldae'' Akşiray, 1955 [
* '' Aphanius saourensis'' Blanco, Hrbek & Doadrio, 2006 (Sahara aphanius)
* '' Aphanius shirini'' Gholami, Esmaeili, Erpenbeck & Reichenbacher, 2014 ][Gholami, Z., Esmaeili, H.R., Erpenbeck, D. & Reichenbacher, B. (2014): Phylogenetic analysis of ''Aphanius'' from the endorheic Kor River Basin in the Zagros Mountains, South-western Iran (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontidae). ''Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 52 (2): 130–141.'']
* '' Aphanius sirhani'' Villwock, Scholl & Krupp
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, 1983 (Azraq toothcarp)
* '' Aphanius sophiae'' Heckel, 1847
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'' Aphanius splendens'' Kosswig & Sözer, 1945 (Gölçük toothcarp)
* ''Aphanius stiassnyae
The Lake Afdera killifish (''Aphanius stiassnyae'') is a fish belonging to the family Cyprinodontidae. It is found in Lake Afdera in Ethiopia. The species was evaluated by the IUCN on 1 May 2009 and listed as endangered on the Red List
The ...
'' Getahun & Lazara, 2001 (Lake Afdera killifish)
* '' Aphanius sureyanus'' W. Neu, 1937 (Burdur toothcarp)
* ''Aphanius transgrediens
''Aphanius transgrediens'', the Acı Göl toothcarp or Acipinar killifish, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinodontidae. It is endemic to the springs of Lake Acıgöl in Turkey. It is threatened by a reduction in rainfall from c ...
'' Ermin, 1946 (Acıgöl toothcarp)
* '' Aphanius villwocki'' Hrbek & Wildekamp, 2003 (Sakarya toothcarp)
* '' Aphanius vladykovi'' Coad, 1988
References
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Cyprinodontidae
Freshwater fish genera
Taxa named by Giovanni Domenico Nardo
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot