Pseudophoxinus maeandricus Common name. Sandıklı spring minnow. Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Pseudophoxinus in Western Anatolia by: ● lateral line complete / ○ 60–65+2 scales in lateral series / ○ mouth slightly subterminal/ ○ flank without mid-lateral stripe. Size up to 100 mm SL. Distribution. Türkiye: Karadirek near Sandıklı, an isolated basin flowing underground to Işıklı. Habitat. Streams among dense vegetation. Biology. No data. Conservation status. CR; known only from one small stream under pressure from many threats. Remarks. After being described from the Işıklı spring, this species was never recorded from there again. There was probably a mistake in labelling of collections. Further reading. Bogutskaya 1992 (revision, distribution); Küçük et al. 2013 (distribution).

Published as part of Freyhof, Jörg, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash & Kaya, Cüneyt, 2025, Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia, GmbH, Berlin / Boston :De Gruyter on page 382, DOI: 10.1515/9783111677811, http://zenodo.org/record/17881367