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Genetic evidence for the rediscovery in the wild of the critically endangered Sahara killifish Apricaphanius saourensis (Cyprinodontiformes: Aphaniidae)
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Authors
Louiza Derouiche,
Redouane Tahri,
Carlos Rodríguez Fernandes 
Abstract
Apricaphanius saourensis was described in 2006 from the Saoura River in western Algeria, and is currently listed as possibly extinct in the wild. We recently discovered an aphaniid population in a very isolated secondary wadi of the Guir River about 115 Km northwest of A. saourensis’ type locality, which we hypothesized could belong to A. saourensis based on images taken from living individuals. We report here results of mitochondrial DNA analyses that suggest that this Guir River population indeed represents the rediscovery in the wild of A. saourensis
DOI
https://doi.org/10.32942/X2XD1H
Subjects
Biodiversity, Biology, Genetics and Genomics, Life Sciences, Other Life Sciences, Zoology
Keywords
Aphanius saourensis, aphaniid, possibly extinct in the wild, genetic species identification, endemic freshwater fish, conservation genetics
Dates
Published: 2025-07-21 13:37
Last Updated: 2025-07-21 13:37
License
CC BY Attribution 4.0 International
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Language:
English
Data and Code Availability Statement:
DNA sequences were submitted to GenBank. The datasets analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
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