Tefenni nase

The Tefenni nase or Tefenni minnow (Turcichondrostoma fahirae) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae. It is found only in Turkey, where it has a distribution limited to the Kirkpinar spring in Karamusa village near Tefenni, Karatash Lake and Değirmendere stream flowing into Karamanlı Reservoir in wider Lake Burdur basin in Central Anatolia. Its natural habitats are rivers and intermittent rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss and was extirpated from the Kirkinpar spring, its type locality, and had to be reintroduced there with unknown success. The population in Değirmendere was discovered in the 21st century and its size is unknown.^[1]

Tefenni nase
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
Subfamily:	Leuciscinae
Genus:	Turcichondrostoma Turan, Küçük, Güçlü & Aksu, 2021[2]
Species:	T. fahirae
Binomial name
Turcichondrostoma fahirae (Ladiges, 1960)
Synonyms[3]
Phoxinellus fahirae Ladiges, 1960 Pseudophoxinus fahirae (Ladiges, 1960) Chondrostoma fahirae (Ladiges, 1960)