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Issue: Vol. 4114 No. 1: 20 May 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-05-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.1.4
Page range: 71–80
Abstract views: 73
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Redescription of Gobio nigrescens from the Hari River drainage (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Guilan, Sowmeh Sara, Guilan, Iran.
Department of Fisheries, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mazandaran, Iran.
Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Deutscher Platz 5a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Pisces freshwater fish Central Asia biodiversity

Abstract

Gobio nigrescens, from the Hari River drainage, is redescribed. It represents a valid species distinguished from congeners in the adjacent Caspian and Aral Sea basins by a combination of characters: a naked breast, 16 circumpeduncular scales and 6–7 irregularly shaped, black or brown blotches on back behind dorsal-fin base.

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