Alburnoides gmelini, the Dagestan spirlin, is a fish species of the family Cyprinidae, known from the western Caspian coast of southern Russia. It can be differentiated from its cogenerates by differences in fin ray and vertebral counts, together with other morphological characters.[2] The specific bane honours Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, a Russian-German naturalist who travelled through the River Don area and the Caucasus region and along the western and southern Caspian Sea coasts between 1768 and 1774.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Genus: | Alburnoides |
| Species: | A. gmelini
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| Binomial name | |
| Alburnoides gmelini Bogutskaya & Coad, 2009
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References edit
- ^ Freyhof, J. (2011). "Alburnoides gmelini". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T184455A8279177. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T184455A8279177.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Rainer Froese; Daniel Pauly, eds. (2017). "Alburnoides gmelini Bogutskaya & Coad, 2009". Fishbase. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
Further reading edit
- Naseka, A. M. "Zoogeographical freshwater divisions of the Caucasus as a part of the West Asian Transitional Region." Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences 314.4 (2010): 469–492.
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