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Issue: Vol. 4173 No. 5: 7 Oct. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-10-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4173.5.7
Page range: 496–500
Abstract views: 68
PDF downloaded: 2

Redescription of Garra elegans (Günther, 1868), a poorly known species from the Tigris River drainage (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), 12587 Berlin, Germany.
Pisces Freshwater fish Middle East Tylognathus Pseudogarra Hemigrammocapoeta

Abstract

Tylognathus elegans, from the lower Tigris River drainage in Iraq, was previously placed in Pseudogarra and Hemigrammocapoeta. Studies based on mitochondrial (COI) and nuclear molecular markers (Rhodopsin) place T. elegans in Garra. As the species is poorly known, it is redescribed here.

 

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