Alburnoides gmelini explained

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Further reading

• 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.

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. Web site: Alburnoides gmelini Bogutskaya & Coad, 2009 . 5 December 2017 . . Rainer Froese . Daniel Pauly . 2017.