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Issue: Vol. 2164 No. 1: 21 Jul. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-07-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2164.1.4
Page range: 41–48
Abstract views: 76
PDF downloaded: 29

Danio aesculapii, a new species of danio from south-western Myanmar (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, PO Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
Fish Rakhine Yoma Thandwe Danio choprae endemism

Abstract

Danio aesculapii, new species, is described from small rivers on the western slope of the Rakhine Yoma in south-western Myanmar. It is superficially similar to D. choprae from northern Myanmar in having a series of vertical bars anteriorly on the side, but differs from it and other species of Danio in having six instead of seven or more branched dorsal-fin rays, and from all other species of Danio except D. erythromicron and D. kerri in having 12 instead of 10 or 14 circumpeduncular scale rows.

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