作者: HAMED MOUSAVI-SABET , SABER VATANDOUST , HAMID REZA ESMAEILI , MATTHIAS F. GEIGER , JÖRG FREYHOF
DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.3914.5.4
关键词: Zoology 、 Cobitidae 、 Spined loach 、 River drainage 、 Cobitis avicennae 、 Biology 、 Ecology 、 Cobitis 、 Teleostei 、 Black spot 、 Drainage basin
摘要: Cobitis avicennae , new species, from the Karkheh and Karun sub-drainages in Tigris catchment is distinguished other species Persian Gulf, Kor southern Caspian Sea basins by having a single lamina circularis males, small comma-shaped black spot on upper caudal-fin base, 5½ branched anal-fin rays, 5–6 rows of dark spots dorsal caudal fins, scales below dorsal-fin base with focal zone pigmentation Z4 12–17 large, partly fused blotches. It also comparison group six fixed, diagnostic nucleotide substitutions mtDNA COI barcode region.