Oxynoemacheilus veyselorum Cicek , Eagderi & Sungur, 2018

Kaya, Cueneyt, Baycelebi, Esra & Turan, Davut, 2020, Taxonomic assessment and distribution of fishes in upper Kura and Aras river drainages, Zoosystematics and Evolution 96 (2), pp. 325-344 : 325

Oxynoemacheilus veyselorum Cicek, Eagderi & Sungur, 2018 Fig. 7c

Common / local names.

Aras loach* / Aras çöpçü balığı *.

IUCN status.

Not evaluated (NE).

Examined material.

FFR 3621, Stream Doğruyol at Doğruyol, Aras drainage, 41.0620N, 43.3450E. - FFR 15550 , Stream Büyük Çayır at Arpaçay, Aras drainage, 40.8431N, 43.3222E. - FFR 15548 , Stream Fehmiharabesi at Akçalar, Aras drainage, 40.7723N, 43.2959E. Not preserved, Stream Kars at campus of Kafkas University, Aras drainage, 40.5814N, 43.0591E. -FFR 1352, Stream Kekeç at Selim, Aras drainage, 40.4715N, 42.8005E. -FFR 3622, Stream Boyalı at Boyalı, Aras drainage, 40.4478N, 42.5833E. -FFR 3623, Stream Kızılçubuk at Kızılçubuk, Aras drainage, 40.3736N, 42.5366E. -FFR 1597, Stream Digor at Digor, Aras drainage, 40.3731N, 43.4271E.

Distribution in the area.

Aras River drainages in northeastern Anatolia. The species recently described from stream Bozkuş (40°37'03.7"N, 42°47'04.9"E), a drainage of Aras River ( Çiçek et al. 2018). Here it was recorded from eight additional localities (streams Doğruyol, Kekeç, Kars, Fehmiharabesi, Boyalı, Digor, Kızılçubuk and Büyük Çayır) in tributaries of Aras River (Table 1 ).

Notes on nomenclature.

Çiçek et al. (2018) described Oxynoemacheilus veyseli in honor of Veysel Çiçek. The epithet stands for two persons as father and son of the first author. In Article 31.1.2. of the International Code for Zoological Nomenclature ( ICZN 1999), it is clearly indicated that: "A species-group name, if a noun in the genitive case (see Article 11.9.1.3) formed directly from a modern personal name, is to be formed by adding to the stem of that name -i if the personal name is that of a man, -orum if of men or of man (men) and woman (women) together, -ae if of a woman, and -arum if of women; the stem of such a name is determined by the action of the original author when forming the genitive." Therefore, the name of the species is treated here as Oxynoemacheilus veyselorum .

Figures

Figure 7. Nemacheilidae and Cobitidae species collected in the area, a, Oxynoemacheilus brandtii from Kura River at Yalnizcam; b, O. cyri from stream Cakir, Kura; c, O. veyselorum from stream Kars, Aras; d, Sabanejewia aurata from stream Kars, Aras; e, Cobitis saniae from Aras River at Koepruecay.