Caecocypris basimi Banister & Bunni, 1980
Haditha cavefish
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1983
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Near Haditha, Iraq (western)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Banister, K. E. and Bunni, M. K. (1980). A new blind cyprinid fish from Iraq. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 38(3): 151-158.
Other references:
Coad, Brian W. (2010). Freshwater fishes of Iraq. Sofia-Moscow: Pensoft. 294 pp.
Freyhof, J. (2014). Caecocypris basimi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 09 July 2014.
Jörg Freyhof, F. Güler Ekmekçi, Atheer Ali, Najim R. Khamees, Müfit Özuluğ, Nashat Hamidan, Fahrettin Küçük and Kevin G. Smith. (2014). Freshwater Fishes, pp. 19-42. In: Smith, K. G., Barrios, V., Darwall, W. R. T. and Numa, C. (eds.). The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in the Eastern Mediterranean. Cambridge, UK, Malaga, Spain and Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. xiv + 132 pp.
http://www.fishbase.org/summary/6101
http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/18336/caecocypris-basimi
https://shoalconservation.org/search-for-lost-fishes/haditha-cavefish/