Males have nine to twelve dark grey-black bars on the sides of the body, a dark blue-black dorsal fin and colourless to yellow caudal and anal fin with two or three black lines at the margins.

Females have silver-grey body with a large number of dark grey spots.

The Kızılırmak toothcarp lives in small springs, swamps, marches and still parts of the streams.

Its growth rate and batch-spawning reproductive strategy give A. danfordii a highly competitive ability for survival in its environment.

[5] The specific name honours the Scottish artist, sportsman and ornithologist Charles George Danford (1843-1928) who collected the type.