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Issue: Vol. 4238 No. 1: 2 Mar. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-03-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.1.5
Page range: 73–87
Abstract views: 124
PDF downloaded: 7

Two new species of Oxynoemacheilus from the Tigris drainage in Iraqi Kurdistan (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)

Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin, Germany.
Medical Laboratory Department, Technical College of Health, Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Sulaimani, Iraq.
Pisces Freshwater biodiversity exploration

Abstract

Two new species of Oxynoemacheilus are described from the Sirvan River drainage in Iraqi Kurdistan. Oxynoemacheilus gyndes, new species, is distinguished by having a very short lateral line, reaching behind the pectoral-fin base, no scales except on the posteriormost part of the caudal peduncle, a slightly emarginate caudal fin and no suborbital groove in males. Oxynoemacheilus hanae, new species, is distinguished by having a midlateral row of elongated blotches, isolated patches of dark-brown spots or blotches on lower flank, a deeply emarginate caudal fin and a suborbital groove in males.

 

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