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Issue: Vol. 1067 No. 1: 21 Oct. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-10-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1067.1.3
Page range: 49-57
Abstract views: 52
PDF downloaded: 34

A new species of Pseudobagrus (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Bagridae) from southern China

Fish Laboratory, College of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Postcode: 510631, China
Fish Laboratory, College of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Postcode: 510631, China
Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden, China Programme, Lam Kam Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China
Pisces Siluriformes Bagridae Pseudobagrus new species southern China

Abstract

A new species of bagrid catfish, Pseudobagrus gracilis, is described from specimens collected from the Zhujiang (Pearl River) basin, southern China. It closely resembles P. adiposalis Oshima and P. ussuriensis (Dybowski), but differs in having a large elliptical eye (19.8–24.4% HL), a short maxillary barbel not reaching the posterior margin of the eye, a lightly serrated posterior edge on the second dorsal spine, a caudal fin slightly emarginated with upper lobe slighter longer than lower lobe, frontal concave with a smooth surface, and supraoccipital process short (far from the first basal bone of the dorsal spine).

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