Re-description of the loach species Leptobotia citrauratea (Teleostei, Botiidae), with the description of L. brachycephala from southern Zhejiang Province, China
| Autor: | E Zhang, Dong-Ming Guo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Zoology phylogeny 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences taxonomy Leptobotia Cypriniformes morphology Animalia Chordata Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Teleostei Botiidae biology Actinopterygii Cytochrome b Holotype Biodiversity biology.organism_classification 030104 developmental biology QL1-991 Cobitidae Animal Science and Zoology Taxonomy (biology) Type locality |
| Zdroj: | ZooKeys 1017: 89-109 ZooKeys, Vol 1017, Iss, Pp 89-109 (2021) |
| Popis: | Leptobotia citrauratea (Nichols, 1925), a loach species, originally described from Dongting Lake, was recently rehabilitated, based on the examination of the holotype and non-topotypical specimens. Several field surveys conducted from 2016 to 2019 in Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Hunan Provinces, P.R. China, yielded many specimens of Leptobotia which were initially identified as L. citrauratea . Molecular and morphological analyses of these specimens demonstrated that two distinct species are involved. One was identified as L. citrauratea , represented by specimens from both the Poyang and Dongting Lake (type locality) systems in Jiangxi and Hunan Provinces, and the other species is described as L. brachycephala , represented by specimens from the Ou-Jiang and Qu-Jiang, two coastal rivers of Zhejiang Province, China. Leptobotia brachycephala resembles L. citrauratea and L. micra in having a row of orange dots or an orange stripe along the dorsal mid-line of the body, extending from the nape to the caudal-fin base – a unique character in Leptobotia . Leptobotia brachycephala differs from L. citrauratea and L. micra Bohlen & Slechtova, 2017, in caudal-fin shape and pelvic-fin insertion and proportional measurements including caudal-fin length, head length, predorsal length and anal-fin length. Its species status was further corroborated by position in a molecular phylogenetic analysis, based on the mitochondrial cyt b gene and its minimum uncorrected p-distance (2.9%) from congeneric species. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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