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| Oxynoemacheilus fatsaensis Saygun, Ağdamar & Özuluğ, in Saygun, Ağdamar et Özuluğ, 2021. |
Abstract
We report a new species, Oxynoemacheilus fatsaensis, from the Elekçi 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.
Oxynoemacheilus fatsaensis Saygun, Ağdamar & Özuluğ sp. nov
Etymology: The species is named for its type locality, the Fatsa district in the Ordu Province. An adjective.
Serkan Saygun, Sevan Ağdamar and Müfit Özuluğ. 2021. Oxynoemacheilus fatsaensis, A New nemacheilid loach from the Elekçi Stream in Northern Anatolia (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 294; 39-49. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2021.07.011
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