Eidinemacheilus smithi

Taxonavigation: Cobitoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cobitoidei

Familia: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Eidinemacheilus

Species: Eidinemacheilus smithi

Name

Eidinemacheilus smithi (Greenwood, 1976)

• Holotype (unique): BMNH 1976.6.28.1.

Type locality: A natural well at Kaaje-Ru, 33°05'N, 48°36'E, near Baq-e-Loveh Oasis, Zagros Mountains, Iran.

Etymology: in honor of writer, explorer and television personality Anthony Smith (b. 1926), who took “great pains (some of them physical)” in collecting (“not without considerable difficulty”) type. (From The ETYFish Project)

Synonyms

• Noemacheilus smithi Greenwood, 1976
  • Paracobitis smithi (Greenwood, 1976)

Vernacular names

• čeština: Mřenka Smithova
• dansk: Blind smerling
• English: Blind Loach
• suomi: Sokkonuoliainen
• 中文: 伊朗盲条鳅 , 伊朗盲條鰍

References

• Freyhof, J., H.R. Esmaeili, G. Sayyadzadeh & M.F. Geiger, 2014: Review of the crested loaches of the genus Paracobitis from Iran and Iraq with the description of four new species (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25 (1): 11–38. Abstract Reference page. 
• Greenwood, P. H., 1976: A new and eyeless cobitid fish (Pisces, Cypriniformes) from the Zagros Mountains, Iran. Journal of Zoology (London) 180 (1): 129–137.

• Hashemzadeh Segherloo, I., Ghaedrahmati, N. & Freyhof, J. 2016. Eidinemacheilus, a new generic name for Noemacheilus smithi Greenwood (Teleostei; Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4147(4): 466–476. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.4.7. Reference page. 

Links

• Eidinemacheilus smithi in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2026. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Eidinemacheilus smithi in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2026. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.