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| Cobitis feroniae Novaga, Bellucci, Geiger & Freyhof, 2024 |
Abstract
Cobitis feroniae, new species, is described from central Italy. It is distinguished from C. zanandreai, its putatively closest relative, by having several, small, black dots below Z4; minute, black spot at the upper caudal peduncle, and the pigmentation in Z2 separated from pigmentation in Z1 anterior to the dorsal-fin origin. It is further distinguished from C. zanandreai by having 13 diagnostic nucleotide substitutions in the mtDNA COI barcode region, and a K2P nearest–neighbour distance of 2.9%.
Pisces, Freshwater fish, taxonomy, Cytochrome oxidase I, Europe
Cobitis feroniae
Riccardo Novaga, Davide Bellucci, Matthias F. Geiger, Jörg Freyhof. 2024. Cobitis feroniae, A New Spined Loach from southern Latium, Italy (Teleostei: Cobitidae). Zootaxa. 458(3); 385-402. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.3.4