Oxynoemacheilus paucilepis

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| status = EN

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Freyhof, J. |date=2014 |title=Oxynoemacheilus paucilepis |volume=2014 |page=e.T19429681A19849754 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19429681A19849754.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| taxon = Oxynoemacheilus paucilepis

| authority = (Erk'akan, Nalbant & Özeren, 2007){{cite web | url = http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Oxynoemacheilus-paucilepis.html | title = Oxynoemacheilus paucilepis (Erk'Akan, Nalbant & Özeren, 2007) Mancilik dwarf loach | accessdate = 3 January 2017 | publisher = Fishbase | editor1 = Rainer Froese | editor2 = Daniel Pauly | year = 2017}}

| synonyms = Barbatula paucilepis Erk'Akan, Nalbant & Özeren, 2007

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Oxynoemacheilus paucilepis, the Mancilik dwarf 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. This species is endemic to the Mancilik, Cetinkaya and Kalkam streams at the headwaters of the Euphrates in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. It may have been extirpated from the Mancilik after none were found at the type locality in 2008, but it was found to be abundant at another locality on the same stream in 2009. Its preferred habitat is small streams with gravel beds and a moderately fast current.