Turcinoemacheilus Bănărescu et Nalbant, 1964

Kamangar, Barzan Bahrami, Prokofiev, Artem M., Ghaderi, Edris & Nalbant, Theodore T., 2014, Stone loaches of Choman River system, Kurdistan, Iran (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae), Zootaxa 3755 (1), pp. 33-61 : 49

Turcinoemacheilus Bănărescu et Nalbant, 1964

Type species: Turcinoemacheilus kosswigi Bănărescu et Nalbant, 1964

Emended diagnosis: This genus can be distinguished from all the other nemacheilid genera in the following combination of characters: preethmoidei-I absent; four cylindrical pectoral-bony radials; bony air-bladder capsule with wide sheet-like bony fringe, no free posterior chamber in abdominal cavity; anus positioned mid-way between pelvic-fin insertion and anal-fin origin; mature males with cheeks thickened and with epidermal tubercles homogeneously distributed on snout.

Remarks: This peculiar genus having a very disjunct distribution ( Conway et al. 2011) can be easily separated from all the other nemacheilids in the region in its anterior position of the anus. Relationship of the genus is unclear ( Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1995; Prokofiev, 2009); however, we found sexual dimorphism of the Oxynoemacheilus - type in the specimens described below, which may indicate that these genera are phylogenetically close. Resolution of this problem will be presented in a forthcoming paper.