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Issue: Vol. 5254 No. 4: 14 Mar. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-03-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5254.4.2
Page range: 476-492
Abstract views: 598
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Glyptothorax sardashtensis, a new species of torrent catfish from the upper Lesser Zab drainage in Iran (Teleostei: Sisoridae)

1Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, 66177-15175, Iran.
Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, 66177-15175, Iran. 2Department of Zrebar Lake Environmental Research, Kurdistan Studies Institute, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, 66177-15175, Iran.
1Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, 66177-15175, Iran.
3Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, 10115 Berlin, Germany. joerg.
Pisces Cytochrome c oxidase I Freshwater fish Middle East Taxonomy

Abstract

Glyptothorax sardashtensis, new species, from the upper Lesser Zab in Iran, is distinguished from its congeners in the Persian Gulf basin by: a plain flank without black or brown blotches; a wide and round anterior margin of the medial pit in the thoracic adhesive apparatus; few, short median striae in the thoracic adhesive apparatus; three yellowish blotches arranged in a crescent-shaped arch on the nuchal plate in front of the dorsal-fin origin; no tubercles on the head and flank; and a short adipose fin. The new species is also distinguished by a minimum K2P sequence divergence of 2.16% in the mtDNA-COI barcode region from G. daemon and G. galaxias, its closest relatives. Glyptothorax kurdistanicus is re-discovered close to its type locality.

 

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