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Issue: Vol. 4126 No. 2: 17 Jun. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4126.2.10
Page range: 295–300
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Garra longchuanensis, a new cyprinid (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from southern China

The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, P. R. China
The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, P. R. China
The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, P. R. China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, P. R. China
The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, P. R. China
Pisces Labeoninae morphology freshwater Longchuan Jiang River Irrawaddy

Abstract

A new species of the genus Garra is described from the Longchuan Jiang River, a tributary flowing to the Yiluowadi Jiang (Irrawaddy River) basin in Tengchong, Yunnan, South China. Garra longchuanensis is distinct from other Chinese congeners, except for G. qiaojiensis, in having 12 circumpeduncular scales, a well-developed rostral lobe with irregular distributed acanthoid tubercles, a deep groove to form a transverse lobe and a conspicuous, heavily tuberculated quadrate proboscis, and from G. qiaojiensis in having a slightly pointed snout (vs. rounded), a long and slender caudal peduncle (length 17.8–20.6% SL vs. 15.5–17.1%, width 10.9–12.6% SL vs. 11.3–12.6%), pectoral fin with 15–16 (vs. 13) branched rays, pelvic fin with 9 (vs. 8) branched rays, and an anterior position of anus (anus to anal distance 27.2–39.1% of pelvic to anal distance vs. 22.8–28.3%).

 

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