Alburnoides

Alburnoides is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Leuciscidae. The fishes in this genus are found in Europe and Asia. Many species are known as riffle minnows or spirlins.

Alburnoides
Alburnoides bipunctatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
Subfamily:	Leuciscinae
Genus:	Alburnoides Jeitteles, 1861 [1]
Type species
Alburnus maculatus Kessler, 1859[1]
Synonyms[1]
Spirlinus Fatio, 1882 Squalalburnus Berg, 1932

Species

These are the currently recognised species in this genus:^[2]

• Alburnoides bipunctatus (Bloch, 1782) (Schneider)
• Alburnoides coskuncelebii Turan, Kaya, Aksu, Bayçelebi & Bektaş, 2019
• Alburnoides damghani Roudbar, Eagderi, Esmaeili, Coad & Bogutskaya, 2016 (Damghan riffle minnow)
• Alburnoides devolli Bogutskaya, Zupančič & Naseka, 2010 (Devoll riffle minnow)
• Alburnoides diclensis Turan, Bektaş, Kaya & Bayçelebi, 2016
• Alburnoides economoui Barbieri, Vukić, Šanda & Zogaris, 2017 (Spercheios spirlin)
• Alburnoides eichwaldii (De Filippi 1863) (South Caspian spirlin)
• Alburnoides emineae Turan, Kaya, Ekmekçi & Doğan, 2014 (Beyazsu chub)
• Alburnoides fangfangae Bogutskaya, Zupančič & Naseka, 2010
• Alburnoides fasciatus (Nordmann 1840) (Transcaucasian spirlin)
• Alburnoides freyhofi Turan, Kaya, Bayçelebi, Bektaş & Ekmekçi, 2017
• Alburnoides gmelini Bogutskaya & Coad, 2009
• Alburnoides holciki Coad & Bogutskaya, 2012
• Alburnoides idignensis Bogutskaya & Coad, 2009
• Alburnoides kosswigi Turan, Kaya, Bayçelebi, Bektaş & Ekmekçi, 2017
• Alburnoides kubanicus Bănărescu, 1964
• Alburnoides kurui Turan, Kaya, Bayçelebi, Bektaş & Ekmekçi, 2017
• Alburnoides maculatus (Kessler, 1859) (Crimean spirlin)
• Alburnoides manyasensis Turan, Ekmekçi, Kaya & Güçlü, 2013 (Manyas spirlin)
• Alburnoides namaki Bogutskaya & Coad, 2009
• Alburnoides nicolausi Bogutskaya & Coad, 2009
• Alburnus oblongus (Bulgakov, 1923) (Tashkent riffle bleak)
• Alburnoides ohridanus (S. Karaman, 1928) (Ohrid spirlin)
• Alburnoides petrubanarescui Bogutskaya & Coad, 2009
• Alburnoides prespensis (S. Karaman, 1924) (Prespa spirlin)
• Alburnoides qanati Bogutskaya & Coad, 2009
• Alburnoides rossicus Berg, 1924 (Russian spirlin)
• Alburnoides samiii Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust & Doadrio, 2015 (Samii's riffle minnow)
• Alburnoides smyrnae Pellegrin, 1927
• Alburnoides strymonicus Chichkoff, 1940
• Alburnoides tabarestanensis Mousavi-Sabet, Anvarifar & Azizi, 2015 (Tabarestan riffle minnow)
• Alburnoides thessalicus Stephanidis, 1950
• Alburnoides turani Kaya, 2020
• Alburnoides tzanevi Chichkoff, 1933
• Alburnoides varentsovi Bogutskaya & Coad, 2009
• Alburnoides velioglui Turan, Kaya, Ekmekçi & Doğan, 2014 (Velioglu's chub)