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'''''Oxynoemacheilus panthera''''', the '''tiger loach'''<ref name = FB/> or the '''Damascus loach''',<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021" /> is a species of [[ray-finned fish]] in the genus ''[[Oxynoemacheilus]]''.<ref>Kottelat, M. (2012): [http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s26/Conspectus_cobitidum.pdf Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei).] ''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.''</ref> It occurs in only two streams, the [[Barada River|Nahr Baradá]] and [[Awaj|Nahr al-A‘waj]] in the Damascus basin in Syria. It is thought that over 90% of the populations of this species of [[ |
'''''Oxynoemacheilus panthera''''', the '''tiger loach'''<ref name = FB/> or the '''Damascus loach''',<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021" /> is a species of [[ray-finned fish]] in the genus ''[[Oxynoemacheilus]]''.<ref>Kottelat, M. (2012): [http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s26/Conspectus_cobitidum.pdf Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei).] ''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.''</ref> It occurs in only two streams, the [[Barada River|Nahr Baradá]] and [[Awaj|Nahr al-A‘waj]] in the Damascus basin in Syria. It is thought that over 90% of the populations of this species of [[stone loach]] have been lost due to water abstraction and the drying up of its native watercourses, exacerbated by lower rainfall levels.<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021" /> |
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