''Oxynoemacheilus araxensis'' is a species of

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or hor ...

in the genus ''

Oxynoemacheilus ''Oxynoemacheilus'' is a genus of fish in the family Nemacheilidae found in Europe and Western Asia Western Asia, West Asia, or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost subregion of the larger geographical region of Asia, as defined by some academic ...

''. It was described from specimens taken at a single locality near Kandili, the type locality, the upper drainage of the

Euphrates The Euphrates () is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Tigris–Euphrates river system, Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia ( ''the land between the rivers'') ...

in eastern Turkey. It has never been recorded anywhere else although there are many populations of superficially similar loaches in the Euphrates drainage which have not yet been identified; these may prove to be of this species or of '' Oxynoemacheilus kaynaki''. Its habitat appears to be moderately fast flowing streams with a gravel bottom.

Footnotes

* araxensis Taxa named by Petre Mihai Bănărescu Taxa named by Teodor T. Nalbant Fish described in 1978 {{Nemacheilidae-stub