Freshwater fishes of Israel; a revised and updated annotated checklist- 2023 Author Çiçek, Erdoğan Department of Biology, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Nevşehir Hacı BektaşVeli University, Nevşehir, Türkiye Author Fricke, Ronald Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany Author Sungur, Sevil Health Services Vocational School, Nevşehir Hacı BektaşVeli University, Nevşehir, Türkiye Author Çapar, Osman Bahadir Faculty of Fisheries, Cukurova University, Türkiye Author Golani, Daniel Deparment of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel text Zootaxa 2023 2023-11-13 5369 4 451 484 https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5369.4.1/52255 journal article 278560 10.11646/zootaxa.5369.4.1 8a95fa8d-aaf9-4550-9a5b-0e8408ecb1bd 1175-5326 10146651 62878FA8-7CC7-462C-9FBF-C9BAEF177855

TABLE 1. Number of species, genus, and families in each order in the freshwaters of Israel.

Taxa	# Families	# Genus	# Species	% in ichthyofauna
Actinopteri
Anguilliformes	1	1	1	1.8
Anguillidae		1	1	1.8
Cypriniformes	3	12	19	34.5
Nemacheilidae		2	3	5.5
Cyprinidae		7	10	18.2
Leuciscidae		3	6	10.9
Siluriformes	3	3	4	7.3
Loricariidae		1	2	3.6
Pangasidae		1	1	1.8
Clariidae		1	1	1.8
Salmoniformes	1	1	2	3.6
Salmonidae		1	2	3.6
Cichliformes	1	11	14	25.5
Cichlidae		11	14	25.5
Cyprinodontiformes	2	6	7	12.7
Poeciliidae		3	3	5.5
Aphaniidae		3	4	7.3
Mugiliformes	1	3	6	10.9
Mugilidae		3	6	10.9
Blenniiformes	1	1	1	1.8
Blenniidae		1	1	1.8
Acanthuriformes	1	1	1	0.2
Moronidae		1	1	0.2
Total	14	39	55