Oxynoemacheilus panthera

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| status = EN

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Freyhof, J. |date=2014 |title=Oxynoemacheilus panthera |volume=2014 |page=e.T19429195A19849594 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19429195A19849594.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| taxon = Oxynoemacheilus panthera

| authority = (Heckel, 1843){{cite web | url = http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Oxynoemacheilus-panthera.html | title = Oxynoemacheilus panther (Heckel, 1843) | accessdate = 4 January 2018 | publisher = Fishbase | editor1 = Rainer Froese | editor2 = Daniel pauly | year = 2017}}

| synonyms = *Cobitis panthera Heckel, 1843

• Barbatula panthera (Heckel, 1843)
• Noemacheilus panthera (Heckel, 1843)
• Orthrias panthera (Heckel, 1843)
• Cobitis leopardus Heckel, 1843

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Oxynoemacheilus panthera, the tiger loach or the Damascus loach, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Oxynoemacheilus.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. It occurs in only two streams, the Nahr Baradá and 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.