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Issue: Vol. 5458 No. 3: 29 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.3.4
Page range: 385-402
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Cobitis feroniae, a new spined loach from southern Latium, Italy (Teleostei: Cobitidae)

La Giovane Ecologia; Via Emilia SNC; Sezze (LT); Italy
DGS spa; Roma; Italy
Museum Koenig Bonn; Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change; Adenauerallee 160; 53113 Bonn; Germany
Museum für Naturkunde; Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science; 10115 Berlin; Germany
Pisces Freshwater fish Taxonomy Cytochrome oxidase I Europe

Abstract

Cobitis feroniae, new species, is described from central Italy. It is distinguished from C. zanandreai, its putatively closest relative, by having several, small, black dots below Z4; minute, black spot at the upper caudal peduncle, and the pigmentation in Z2 separated from pigmentation in Z1 anterior to the dorsal-fin origin. It is further distinguished from C. zanandreai by having 13 diagnostic nucleotide substitutions in the mtDNA COI barcode region, and a K2P nearest–neighbour distance of 2.9%. 

 

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