Oxynoemacheilus samanticus

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Freyhof, J. |date=2014 |title=Oxynoemacheilus samanticus |volume=2014 |page=e.T19430738A19849836 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19430738A19849836.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| taxon = Oxynoemacheilus samanticus

| authority = (Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1978){{FishBase |Oxynoemacheilus|samanticus |id=63596 |month=January|year=2018}}

| synonyms = * Orthrias brandtii samantica Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1978

• Barbatula samantica (Banarescu & Nalbant, 1978)
• Schistura samantica (Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1978)

}}

Oxynoemacheilus samanticus, the Kizilirmak sportive loach, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Oxynoemacheilus.{{cite journal|author=Kottelat, M. |year=2012 |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s26/Conspectus_cobitidum.pdf |title=Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)|page=99|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130211134858/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s26/Conspectus_cobitidum.pdf |journal=The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology|issue= Suppl. No. 26}} It is found in streams and rivers with a fast current over gravel substrate and is endemic to eastern Anatolia, Turkey where it is found in the Kizilirmak system which drains into the Black Sea, as well as the headwaters of the Euphrates.