Original scientific paper

Description of a new species, Phoxinellus dalmaticus (Cyprinidae: Leuciscinae), from the Čikola River in the Krka River system, Adriatic basin (Croatia)

Primož Zupančič ; AZV Agency, Dolsko 14, SI–1262, Slovenia
Nina G. Bogutskaya ; Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb. 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia

Abstract

Phoxinellus dalmaticus, new species, is described from the Čikola River in the Krka River system in Croatia. It is distinguished from congeners by a suite of characters which includes a naked body with scales only in a relatively short, often interrupted, lateral line series (sq. l. 18–44) formed from both pored (l. l. 16–29) and unpored scales, a low number of vertebrae (37 or 38 total) with 21 vertebrae in the abdominal and 16 or 17 in the caudal region, a shallowly forked caudal fin with considerably rounded lobes and the lack of a foramen between the cleithrum and coracoid.

Keywords

Phoxinellus dalmaticus; new species; Leuciscinae; Cyprinidae; systematics

Hrčak ID:

31057

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/31057

Publication date:

30.6.2000.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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