Pseudophoxinus crassus
General information
 
Pseudophoxinus crassus (Ladiges, 1960)
 
 
Synonyms
Acanthorutilus crassus Ladiges, 1960
Phoxinellus crassus (Ladiges, 1960)
IUCN Red List status (2014)
Endangered (EN)
Habitat
Freshwater
Systematics
Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Actinopterygii; Neopterygii; Teleostei; Ostariophysi; Cypriniformes; Cyprinidae.
Geographical distribution
Turkey
Occurrence Endemic: Turkey
Importance
Remarks
Nil
Karyological information
Geographical area of study Cihanbeyli-Insuyu spring, Turkey
Source of chromosomes
Kidney
Number of specimens with sex
05 (males-03, females-02)
Diploid chromosome number
50
Karyotype formula
12M+30SM+8ST-A
Fundamental arm number
92
Chromosome length
Not reported
Sex chromosome
Not reported
Chromosome staining/banding/FISH
Blocks of constitutive heterochromatin were present at the pericentromeric regions of many chromosome pairs; Ag-NORs were localized on the short arm of a SM chromosome pair
Reference(s)
Unal S, Gaffaroglu M, Ayata MK, Yuksel E (2014). Karyotype, C-banding and AgNORs of two endemic leuciscine fish, Pseudophoxinus crassus (Ladiges, 1960) and P. hittitorum Freyhof & Ozulug, 2010 (Teleostei, Cyprinidae). Comparative Cytogenetics 8(4): 249–257.