Vertebrate Zoology 65(3): 297-303, doi:
Paraschistura delvarii spec. nov. - a new species of stone loach from the Persian Gulf basin, southern Iran (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)
Soheil Eagderi‡‡ Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
Corresponding author: Soheil Eagderi ( soheil.eagderi@ut.ac.ir ) © Soheil Eagderi. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Eagderi S (2015) Paraschistura delvarii spec. nov. - a new species of stone loach from the Persian Gulf basin, southern Iran (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Vertebrate Zoology 65(3): 297-303 |  |
Abstract
Paraschistura delvarii, new species, from the Mond River drainage in the Persian Gulf basin, differs from other species of the genus in Iran by having a combination of the colour pattern consisting of marbled colour pattern without distinct bars on the flank, shallow and elongated body, incomplete lateral line extending to the dorsal-fin base, absence of dorsal adipose crest, bold black spot at base of first dorsal-fin rays, scatter scaled body, short and blunt snout, and suborbital groove in males.
Keywords
Loach, Taxonomy, Description of a New Species, Gharaghaj River, Middle East.