Author : Jörg Freyhof,Esra Baycelebi,Matthias Geiger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1776705629
Review of the Genus Cobitis in the Middle East, with the Description of Eight New Species (Teleostei: Cobitidae) by Jörg Freyhof,Esra Baycelebi,Matthias Geiger Pdf
"The diversity of Cobitis in the Middle East is reviewed, resulting in the recognition of 30 species, of which eight are described herein as new. Two species, C. amphilekta and C. kellei, seem to be extinct. Hypotheses on species-level diversity derived from distance and Poisson tree process analyses of DNA barcode data are tested against morphometric and morphological characters including colour patterns. For species pairs separated by small K2P distances in COI sequence data we follow a practitioner-oriented diagnostic species concept, in which we recognise species only if differentiated morphologically (including by colour pattern). For all 30 species we provide diagnoses and identification keys. Keywords: Pisces, Freshwater fish, Taxonomy, Cytochrome oxidase I, Middle East."--Page 3.