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Issue: Vol. 5399 No. 2: 11 Jan. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-01-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.2.6
Page range: 172-180
Abstract views: 213
PDF downloaded: 8

Turcinoemacheilus inexpectatus, a new nemacheilid loach from the Tigris drainage (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)

Museum für Naturkunde; Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science; 10115 Berlin; Germany
Museum für Naturkunde; Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science; 10115 Berlin; Germany
Pisces Freshwater fish Taxonomy Morphology Western Asia Cypriniformes

Abstract

Turcinoemacheilus inexpectatus, new species, is described from the Greater Zab, Lesser Zab, and Sirvan drainages, all tributaries of the middle Tigris. It belongs to the T. kosswigi species group. The new species is distinguished from its congeners by an indistinct or prominent midlateral stripe broader than the eye diameter often overlaid by a row of dark-brown blotches, greater pre-pelvic distance, deeper caudal peduncle, and wider interorbital distance.

 

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