Oxynoemacheilus tongiorgii

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Devi, R. |author2=Boguskaya, N. |year=2009 |title=Oxynoemacheilus tongiorgii |page=e.T169625A6657173 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T169625A6657173.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| taxon = Oxynoemacheilus tongiorgii

| authority = (Nalbant & Bianco, 1998){{FishBase | genus =Oxynoemacheilus | species=tongiorgii | month = January | year = 2018}}

| synonyms = Barbatula simavica (Balik & Banarescu, 1978)

Seminemacheilus tongiorgii Nalbant & Bianco, 1998

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Oxynoemacheilus tongiorgii is a species of stone loach from the genus Oxynoemacheilus.{{cite journal | author = Kottelat, M. | year = 2012 | url = http://opac.admin.ch/gw/toc/pdf/toc001703351.pdf| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160911224334/http://opac.admin.ch/gw/toc/pdf/toc001703351.pdf| url-status = dead| archive-date = September 11, 2016| title = Conspectus Cobitidum:an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei)| journal = The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology | volume = Supplement No. 26 | pages = 1–199}} It was found in a spring near the town of Darab in the Kul River basin of Iran. It has only been recorded once.

The fish is named in honor of Paolo Tongiorgi (1936–2018) of the University of Modena, who as co-editor of the Italian Journal of Zoology, helped in the final editing of the special volume in which this fish's description appeared.{{cite web | url = https://etyfish.org/nemacheilidae/ | title = Family NEMACHEILIDAE Regan 1911 (Stone or Brook Loaches) | access-date= 28 January 2024 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 23 January 2024}}