Oxynoemacheilus bergianus
# Oxynoemacheilus bergianus

Oxynoemacheilus bergianus, the Kura sportive loach, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Oxynoemacheilus. This species is found in Lake Urumiyeh and Namak Lake basins in Iran, in the southern Caspian basin from Kura east to the Sefid-Rud drainage. It can also be found in the headwaters of Tigris in Turkey, Iraq and in Karoun, Iran as well as those of the Euphrates in Turkey and possibly in Syria and Iraq. It lives in fast flowing streams and rivers with gravel and rocky substrates and does not tolerate impoundments, dam construction having been identified as a major potential threat to this species.

The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Lev (also Leo) Semyonovich Berg (1876-1950).

## Footnotes

* 1 2 Freyhof, J. (2014). "Oxynoemacheilus bergianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T19385622A19849311. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19385622A19849311.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
* ↑ Rainer Froese; Daniel pauly, eds. (2017). "Oxynoemacheilus bergianus (Derjavin, 1934)". Fishbase. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
* ↑ Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
* ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (a-p)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
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