[Ichthyology • 2017] Three New Species of Algae-scraping Cyprinid Genus Capoeta (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Tigris River Drainage in Iran

Capoeta ferdowsii,  C. pyragyi & C. shajariani

Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2017

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Abstract
Traditionally small-scale populations of Capoeta in the Tigris River drainage are identified as Capoeta damascina. The recent finding revealed that some populations of small-scaled C. damascina species group are not identified as any described species. We examined these populations and the results showed that there are pronounced differences between them in morphological and molecular characters. Therefore based on differences found, here we describe three new small-scaled Capoeta species from Zohreh, Tireh and Gamasiab Rivers, Tigris River drainage, Iran.

Keywords: Biodiversity, Cyprinid, Freshwater fish species, Iran, Taxonomy.

Figure 4. Capoeta ferdowsii, IMNRF-UT-1111 67, 138 mm SL; Iran: Fars Prov.: Bekr sofla village, Tang-e Shiv River, Tigris River drainage.
Figure 10. Capoeta pyragyi, IMNRF-UT-1109 134, 155.8 mm SL; Iran: Lorestan Prov.: Tire River, Sezar River drainage, Tigris river drainage.
Figure 15. Capoeta shajariani, IMNRF-UT-1106 49, 149 mm SL; Iran: Hamedan Prov.: Gamasiab River, Saad-e Vaghas Village, Tigris River drainage.

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Capoeta ferdowsii, new species

Distribution: Capoeta ferdowsii is known from the Zohreh and Fahlian Rivers in Tigris river drainage (Fig. 7).
Etymology: The species is named to honor of Abu Al-Qasim Ferdowsi Tusi (Persian: وسمس ابوالقاسمفردوسیسمسر (a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh book which is the world's longest epic poem created by a single poet, and the national epic of Greater Iran.


Capoeta pyragyi, new species

Distribution: Capoeta pyragyi is known from the Tireh and Sezar Rivers (Fig. 13).
Etymology: The species is named to honor of Magtymguly Pyragy (Persian: دواغس مختومقلس (a Turkmen spiritual leader and philosophical poet.


Capoeta shajariani, new species

Distribution: Capoeta shajariani is known from the Gamasiab (Fig. 20), Dinevar, Qarasu, Khoram (Khoram Abad), Aran and Sarab-e Maran Rivers in the Tigris River drainage.
Etymology: The species is named to honor of Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, an acclaimed Iranian classical singer, composer and master of Persian traditional music.


 Arash Jouladeh-Roudbar, Soheil Eagderi, Leidys Murillo-Ramos, Hamid Reza Ghanavi and Ignacio Doadrio. 2017. Three New Species of Algae-scraping Cyprinid from Tigris River Drainage in Iran (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). FishTaxa. 2(3); 134-155.  FishTaxa.com/index.php/ft/article/view/2-3-4
  

[Ichthyology • 2017] Five New Species of Neolissochilus Rainboth, 1985 (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from the Western Ghats, peninsular India; Neolissochilus capudelphinus, N. minimus, N. micropthalmus, N. acutirostris & N. tamiraparaniensis

Figure 3. Live specimens of (A) Neolissochilus capudelphinus sp. nov. MSUMNH191, 216.21 mm SL, upstream of the diverted water from Periyar River, M. Arunachalam and team, 16 March 2003, 
(B) Neolissochilus minimus sp. nov. MSUMNH192, 127.34 mm SL, from the diverted water of Periyar River in the forest reserves of Cumbam Valley, M. Arunachalam and team, 03 March 2003,
(C) Neolissochilus micropthalmus sp. nov. MSUMNH193, 163.72 mm SL, Ambayathode in the forest reserves in the Kannur District, Kerala, M. Arunachalam and team, 09 February 2003,
(D) Neolissochilus acutirostris, sp. nov. MSUMNH194, 160.17 mm SL, Abby falls a stream in the Cauvery River drainage in Kodagu District, Karnataka, M. Arunachalam and team, 22 March 2004 and
(E) Neolissochilus tamiraparaniensis, sp. nov. MSUMNH195, 246.56 mm SL, Gadana River of Tamiraparani River basin (east flowing in southern Tamil Nadu), M. Arunachalam and team, 24 February 2004.

Arunachalam, Sivakumar & Murugan, 2017
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Abstract 
The genus Neolissochilus was described by Rainboth, 1985 and currently includes 24 nominal taxa with distributions in southern and south-eastern Asia. Five new species of Neolissochilus are described herein from streams and rivers of the Western Ghats, peninsular India, one of the World’s hotspots of biodiversity. The new species include Neolissochilus capudelphinus, N. minimus, N. micropthalmus, N. acutirostris and N. tamiraparaniensis. Neolissochilus wynaadensis (Day, 1873), also from the Western Ghats is considered a valid species. The five new species are described based on meristic, morphometric characters, and molecular data. Relationships among the newly described species and the relationships of Neolissochilus with Systomus (=Barbodes /Puntius), Hypselobarbus Bleeker and Tor Gray, all presumed closely related lineages are discussed.

Keywords: Cyprinidae, Neolissochilus capudelphinus, Neolissochilus minimus, Neolissochilus micropthalmus, Neolissochilus acutirostris, Neolissochilus tamiraparaniensis.

Muthukumarasamy Arunachalam, Paramasivan Sivakumar and Manavalan Murugan. 2017. Descriptions of Five New Species of Neolissochilus Rainboth, 1985 (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from Streams/Rivers of the Western Ghats, peninsular India. FishTaxa. 2(1); 1-27.
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[Ichthyology • 2016] Garra lorestanensis • A New Cave Fish (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Tigris River Drainage with Remarks on the Subterranean Fishes in Iran

Garra lorestanensis

Mousavi-Sabet & Eagderi, 2016 

Abstract

The Iranian subterranean species are reviewed, diagnoses are presented for Garra typhlops and Paracobitis smithi, and a new species is described. Garra lorestanensis, new species, from Loven Cave, the Tigris River drainage in Iran, is distinguished from its congeners by the combination of characters, including lacking pigment and eyes, having a well-developed mental disc, two pairs of barbels, and naked body.

Keywords: Loven Cave, Iranocypris typhlops, Nemacheilus smithi, Middle East.

Garra lorestanensis, new species

Holotype: VMFC GL-H, 55 mm SL. Iran, Lorestan prov.: Loven Cave, the Tigris River drainage, the Persian Gulf basin, 33°04'39"N 48°35'33"E, 23 April 2014, H. Mousavi-Sabet, A. Jouladeh-Roudbar & S. Vatandoust.

Etymology: The species name lorestanensis, treated as an adjective, is derived from Lorestan Province which including the Loven Cave, the type locality of the new species.

Hamed MOUSAVI-SABET and Soheil EAGDERI. 2016. Garra lorestanensis, A New Cave Fish from the Tigris River Drainage with Remarks on the Subterranean Fishes in Iran (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). FishTaxa. (2016) 1: 45-54 . 

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