Anatolichthys

Anatolichthys
Anatolichthys danfordii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cyprinodontiformes
Family:	Aphaniidae
Genus:	Anatolichthys Kosswig & Sözer, 1945
Type species
Anatolichthys splendens Kosswig & Sözer, 1945
Synonyms
Turkichthys Ermin, 1946

Anatolichthys is a genus of toothcarps in the family Aphaniidae, which are native to Asia Minor. Several species in the genus have very limited distribution and may be threatened.

Etymology

The generic name is derived from Anatolia, a name for the Asian part of Turkey and ichthys "fish".[1]

Species

There are thirteen valid species:[2]

• Anatolichthys anatoliae Leidenfrost, 1912 (Lake Tuz toothcarp)
• Anatolichthys danfordii Boulenger, 1890 (Sultan Sazlığı toothcarp)
• Anatolichthys fontinalis Akşiray, 1948 [3]
• Anatolichthys iconii Akşiray, 1948 [3]
• Anatolichthys irregularis (Yoğurtçuoğlu & Freyhof, 2018) [3]
• Anatolichthys maeandricus Akşiray, 1948 [3]
• Anatolichthys marassantensis Pfleiderer, Geiger & Herder, 2014 (Kızılırmak toothcarp) [3]
• Anatolichthys meridionalis Akşiray, 1948 [3]
• Anatolichthys saldae Akşiray, 1955 [3]
• †Anatolichthys splendens Kosswig & Sözer, 1945 (Splendid toothcarp)
• Anatolichthys sureyanus W. Neu, 1937 (Burdur toothcarp)
• Anatolichthys transgrediens Ermin, 1946 (Acıgöl toothcarp)
• Anatolichthys villwocki Hrbek & Wildekamp, 2003 (Sakarya toothcarp)

References

1. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (8 December 2023). "Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families POECILIIDAE, ANABLEPIDAE, VALENCIIDAE, APHANIIDAE and PROCATOPODIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. v. 16.0. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Anatolichthys". FishBase. June 2024 version.
3. Pfleiderer, S. Johannes; Geiger, Matthias F.; Herder, Fabian (2014). "Aphanius marassantensis, a new toothcarp from the Kızılırmak drainage in northern Anatolia (Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontidae)". Zootaxa. 3887 (5): 569–582. doi:10.11646/Zootaxa.3887.5.4. PMID 25543950.

Further reading

• Esmaeili, Hamid Reza; Teimori, Azad; Zarei, Fatah; Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz (2020). "DNA barcoding and species delimitation of the Old World tooth-carps, family Aphaniidae Hoedeman, 1949 (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes)". PLOS ONE. 15 (4): e0231717. Bibcode:2020PLoSO..1531717E. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231717. PMC 7162479. PMID 32298351.
• Freyhof, Jörg; Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran (2020). "A proposal for a new generic structure of the killifish family Aphaniidae, with the description of Aphaniops teimorii (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes)". Zootaxa. 4810 (3): 421–451. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4810.3.2. PMID 33055730.