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Issue: Vol. 3586 No. 1: 14 Dec. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-12-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3586.1.30
Page range: 319–328
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 28

Schistura (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) in the Mae Khlong basin in southwestern Thailand with description of a new species

Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, USA, and Department of Biology, University of Florida, 211 Bartram Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Environmental Science, Graduate School Program, Faculty of Science, Burapha University, Bangsaen, Chonburi, 20131, Thailand
Environmental Science, Graduate School Program, Faculty of Science, Burapha University, Bangsaen, Chonburi, 20131, Thailand
Environmental Science, Graduate School Program, Faculty of Science, Burapha University, Bangsaen, Chonburi, 20131, Thailand
Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, USA, and Department of Biology, University of Florida, 211 Bartram Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, USA, and Department of Biology, University of Florida, 211 Bartram Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, USA, and Department of Biology, University of Florida, 211 Bartram Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Fish Pisces Cypriniformes Schistura sexcauda Schistura desmotes

Abstract

Recent fieldwork has revealed the presence of six species of Schistura McClelland 1838 in the Mae Khlong basin in south-western Thailand. These include S. sexcauda (Fowler 1937), S. balteata (Rendahl 1948), S. mahnerti Kottelat 1990, therecently described S. aurantiaca Plongsesthee et al. 2011 and S. tenebrosa Kangrang et al. 2012, and a newly discoveredspecies described herein. Schistura sexcauda previously was the only Schistura species known in the Mae Khlong, andit was mis-identified as S. desmotes (Fowler 1934). Schistura pantherina, n. sp., is easily distinguished from all other species of Schistura by its distinctive color pattern. It appears to be endemic to the Mae Nam Kwai Noi system.

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