Cobitis amphilekta Vasil’eva & Vasil’ev, 2012:177
Azerbaijani spined loach
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (Freyhof, 2014; Freyhof et al., 2025 [listed as Extinct but notes "Expected to occur elsewhere"])
Last record: 1937 (Vasil’eva & Vasil’ev, 2012; Freyhof, 2014; Freyhof et al., 2025)
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution & Habitat
Azerbaijan & Kazakhstan
Type locality: "Azerbaijan: Caspian Sea near Port Il'icha between old bed of Kumbashi River and state farm" (Kottelat, 2012:24)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: ZMMU P-22794 (Kottelat, 2012:24)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Vasil’eva, E. D. and Vasil’ev, V. P. (2012). [Cobitis amphilekta sp. nova, a new species of spined loaches (Cobitidae, Cypriniformes) from the Caspian Sea basin]. Voprosy Ikhtiologii 52(2): 177-183. [In Russian, translated in Journal of Ichthyology 52(3): 200-206. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945212020154].
Other references:
Freyhof, J. (2014). Cobitis amphilekta. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T42622224A42622227. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T42622224A42622227.en. Accessed on 22 July 2026.
Freyhof, Jörg et al. (2018). Review of the genus Cobitis in the Middle East, with the description of eight new species (Teleostei: Cobitidae). Zootaxa 4535(1): 1-75. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4535.1.1
Freyhof, Jörg, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash and Kaya, Cüneyt. (2025). Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111677811 [p. 440]
Kottelat, Maurice. (2012). Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 2012, Supplement No. 26: 1-199.
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