''Alburnoides varentsovi'' is a fish

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

of the family

Leuciscidae Leuciscidae is a family of freshwater ray-finned fishes, formerly classified as a subfamily of the Cyprinidae, which contains the true minnows. Members of the Old World (OW) clade of minnows within this subfamily are known as European minnow ...

, known from

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ash ...

. It can be differentiated from its cogenerates by differences in fin ray and

vertebra Each vertebra (: vertebrae) is an irregular bone with a complex structure composed of bone and some hyaline cartilage, that make up the vertebral column or spine, of vertebrates. The proportions of the vertebrae differ according to their spina ...

l counts, together with other morphological characters.Bogutskaya, N. G., and B. W. Coad. "A review of vertebral and fin-ray counts in the genus Alburnoides (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) with a description of six new species." Zoosystematica Rossica 18.1 (2009): 126-173.

References

*Turan, Davut, et al. "Alburnoides manyasensis (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae), a new species of cyprinid fish from Manyas Lake basin, Turkey." ZooKeys 276 (2013): 85. *Roudbar, Arash Jouladeh, et al. "A molecular approach to the genus Alburnoides using COI sequences data set and the description of a new species, A. damghani, from the Damghan River system (the Dasht-e Kavir Basin, Iran)(Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae)." ZooKeys 579 (2016): 157. varentsovi Endemic fauna of Turkmenistan Fish of Central Asia Taxa named by Nina Gidalevna Bogutskaya Taxa named by Brian W. Coad Fish described in 2009 {{leuciscinae-stub

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