Oxynoemacheilus fatsaensis, a new nemacheilid loach from the Elekci Stream in Northern Anatolia (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)

Saygun S., AĞDAMAR S., ÖZULUĞ M.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER, vol.294, pp.39-49, 2021 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 294
  • Publication Date: 2021
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.jcz.2021.07.011
  • Journal Name: ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, Veterinary Science Database
  • Page Numbers: pp.39-49
  • Keywords: Freshwater fish, Taxonomy, Black sea, Biodiversity
  • Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

We report a new species, Oxynoemacheilus fatsaensis, from the Elekci Stream, a small stream that flows to the Black Sea in Northern Turkey. It is distinguished from other Oxynoemacheilus species in the Black Sea, Upper Euphrates, and Kura-Aras River basins by having a suborbital groove in males, an axillary lobe at the pelvic-fin base, no dorsal adipose crest on the caudal peduncle, a deeply emarginate caudal fin, small inner and outer rostral barbels, and mottled flank pattern. Molecular data suggest that the new species is separated by a minimum p-distance of 3.3% from O. banarescui in the mitochondrial DNA COI barcode region. (c) 2021 Published by Elsevier GmbH.