Eidinemacheilus smithi

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = VU | status_system = IUCN2.3

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=World Conservation Monitoring Centre |date=2018 |title=Eidinemacheilus smithi |amends=1996 |page=e.T14489A136077821 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T14489A136077821.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| taxon = Eidinemacheilus smithi

| authority = (Greenwood, 1976)

| synonyms =

Noemacheilus smithi Greenwood, 1976

Paracobitis smithi (Greenwood, 1976)

}}

Eidinemacheilus smithi, also known as the Zagroz blind loach, is a species of loach in the family Nemacheilidae. This cavefish is endemic to an aquifer in the Karun River drainage in the Zagros Mountains of Iran.{{cite journal|author=Segherloo, I.H.|author2= Ghaedrahmati, N. |author3= Freyhof, J. |name-list-style=amp |year=2021 |title=Eidinemacheilus, a new generic name for Noemacheilus smithi Greenwood (Teleostei; Nemacheilidae) |journal=Zootaxa|volume= 4147|issue=4|pages=466–476|pmid= 27515629 }}{{FishBase | genus = Eidinemacheilus | species = smithi | month = June | year = 2024}}

It is named after British explorer Anthony Smith, who collected the type specimens.{{Cite web |last1=Scharpf |last2=Lazara |first1=C. |first2=K.J. |title=Family NEMACHEILIDAE Regan 1911 (Stone or Brook Loaches) |url=https://etyfish.org/nemacheilidae/ |website=The ETYFish Project |access-date=20 June 2024 |date=18 May 2024}}

There are three other known cavefish species in Iran: Garra lorestanensis, G. tashanensis and G. typhlops.{{cite journal | last1=Mousavi-Sabet | first1=H.|last2=Eagderi | first2=S. | year=2016 | title=Garra lorestanensis, a new cave fish from the Tigris River drainage with remarks on the subterranean fishes in Iran (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) | journal=FishTaxa | volume=1 | issue=1 | pages=45–54}}{{cite journal|last1=Mousavi-Sabet|last2=Vatandoust|last3=Fatemi|last4=Eagderi|year=2016|title=Tashan Cave a new cave fish locality for Iran; and Garra tashanensis, A New Blind Species from the Tigris River Drainage (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)|journal=FishTaxa|volume=1|issue=3|pages=133–148}}