Rutilus sojuchbulagi Abdurakhmanov, 1950
Akstafa spring roach
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pseudophoxinus sojuchbulagi (Abdurakhmanov, 1950)
Conservation Status
Extinct (Freyholf et al., 2025; Freyhof, 2026)
Last record: 1940's (Freyhof et al., 2025:397); 1948 (Freyhof, 2014, 2026); 1950's (Freyhof et al. 2014)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution & Habitat
Akstafa region, Kura drainage, Azerbaijan
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Abdurakhmanov, Y. A. (1950). New species of roach, Rutilus sojuchbulagi sp. nova. Doklady Akademii Nauk Azerbaidzhanskoi SSR 6(3): 112-116.
Other references:
Bogutskaya, N. G. (2008). Assessment of freshwater fish diversity and ecology: Azerbaijan-Russian joint expedition 2008, Nina Bogutskaya, Regional Co-ordinator - North Asia . Freshwater Fish Specialist Group Newsletter 2: 1-2.
Bogutskaya, N. G., Küçük, F. and Atalay, M. A. (2006). A description of three new species of the genus Pseudophoxinus from Turkey (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Leuciscinae). Zoosystematica Rossica 15(2): 335-341.
Freyhof, Jörg. (2014). Pseudophoxinus sojuchbulagi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 15 March 2015.
Freyhof, Jörg. (2026). Rutilus sojuchbulagi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2026: e.T19449338A146243651. Accessed on 21 July 2026.
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.
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 [pp. 396-397]
Kuljanishvili, T., G. Epitashvili, J. Freyhof, B. Japoshvili, L. Kalous, B. Levin, N. Mustafayev, S. Ibrahimov, S. Pipoyan and L. Mumladze. (2020). Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 36: 501-514. https://doi.org/10.1111/jai.14038