Holy loach! Fish missing for decades rediscovered in Turkey’s Batman River

Mongabay
Dec 21, 2021, 9:20 am391 pts
For about a decade, ichthyologist Cüneyt Kaya had made it a quest to search for the critically endangered Batman River loach (Paraschistura chrysicristinae), a tiny, orange-and-brown-striped freshwater fish once found in the Batman and Ambar rivers in Turkey. But no one had spotted the fish since 1974, leading…

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