Alburnoides holciki Coad & Bogutskaya, 2012
Alburnoides holciki
photo by Coad, B.W. / Bogutskaya, N.G.

Family:  Leuciscidae (Minnows), subfamily: Leuciscinae
Max. size:  10.18 cm SL (male/unsexed); max.weight: 19.8 g
Environment:  benthopelagic; freshwater
Distribution:  Asia: Hari River basin at the border of three countries including northwestern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran and southern Turkmenistan.
Diagnosis:  Anal soft rays: 14-20; Vertebrae: 40-42. Can be diagnosed by a combination of the following characters: ventral keel well-defined, sharp, scaleless or only slightly scaled; snout short, slightly pointed; mouth terminal with the tip of the mouth cleft on a level with the upper half of the pupil; eye large with orbit width about equal to interorbital width; 47-51 lateral-line scales to posterior margin of hypurals (47-57 total lateral-line scales); 2.5-4.2 pharyngeal teeth; dorsal-fin usually with 8½ branched rays; anal fin usually with 13-16½ branched rays; 40-42, usually 41, total vertebrae; caudal vertebral region longer than abdominal region (most frequent vertebral formulae 20+21, 20+22 and 19+21); and usually 13 or 14 predorsal vertebrae (Ref. 91777). Description: dorsal fin with 3-4 unbranched rays and 8½ - 9½ branched rays (Ref. 91777).
Biology: 
IUCN Red List Status: Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. (130435)
Threat to humans:  harmless


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