Nemacheilidae

Nemacheilus insignis

Oxynoemacheilus insignis

Near Threatened Loach in the Record

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Freshwater fish
• West Asia
• Small
• Tropical fish

Oxynoemacheilus insignis is a species of stone loach It is restricted to the Damascus basin in Syria and to the Jordan-Dead Sea basin in Syria, Israel and Jordan. Its natural habitat is rivers. It is threatened by the drying up of the rivers and streams in which it is found, caused by overuse, damming and less rainfall, as well as by pollution.