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Issue: Vol. 1981 No. 1: 16 Jan. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-01-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1981.1.2
Page range: 15–28
Abstract views: 94
PDF downloaded: 4

Barbus niluferensis, a new species of barbel (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Nilüfer River, Turkey, with re-description of B. oligolepis

Rize University, Faculty of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 53100 Rize, Turkey
Case postale 57, 2952 Cornol, Switzerland (permanent address), and Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Hacettepe University, Beytepe Campus, 06800 Ankara, Turkey
Fish Turkey Cyprinidae Barbus oligolepis Barbus niluferensis taxonomy

Abstract

Barbus niluferensis, new species, is described from the Nilüfer River, Marmara Sea drainage, Turkey. It is distinguished by a weaker last simple dorsal-fin ray, serrated along the proximal half of its posterior margin, a maximum known size of 146 mm SL, a slender body, a short head, a short caudal fin, and larger irregular black blotches on the back and the flanks, and small black spots on the head, extending downwards to the cheeks. Barbus oligolepis Battalgil, 1941, is a valid species known from the rivers draining to the southern shore of the Marmara Sea.

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