Alburnoides idignensis, is a fish species of the family Leuciscidae endemic to Iran. It can be differentiated from its cogenerates by differences in fin ray and vertebral counts, together with other morphological characters.Bogutskaya, N. G., and B. W. Coad. "A review of vertebral and fin-ray counts in the genus Alburnoides (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) with a description of six new species." Zoosystematica Rossica 18.1 (2009): 126-173. The specific name is derived from the Sumerian name for the River Tigris, "Idigna".
References
Further reading Turan, Davut, et al. "Alburnoides manyasensis (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae), a new species of cyprinid fish from Manyas Lake basin, Turkey." ZooKeys 276 (2013): 85. Mousavi-Sabet, Hamed, Saber Vatandoust, and Ignacio Doadrio Villarejo. "Review of the genus Alburnoides Jeitteles, 1861 (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae) from Iran with description of three new species from the Caspian Sea and Kavir basins." (2015).