Eğirdir minnow

The Eğirdir minnow or Handlirsch's minnow (Pseudophoxinus handlirschi) (in Turkish ciçek), is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species.^[2] It was endemic to Lake Eğirdir in Turkey, but is now considered extinct. It was earlier critically endangered due to predation by pike perch which had been introduced to the lake, but has not been found since 1980s and was therefore evaluated by IUCN as extinct in 2013.^[1]

Eğirdir minnow
Conservation status
Extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
Subfamily:	Leuciscinae
Genus:	Pseudophoxinus
Species:	†P. handlirschi
Binomial name
†Pseudophoxinus handlirschi (Pietschmann, 1933)
Synonyms
Oreoleuciscus handlirschi (Pietschmann, 1933) Phoxinellus handlirschi (Pietschmann, 1933)

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Austrian entomologist Anton Handlirsch (1865–1935), who was Pietschmann’s colleague at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.^[3]