Vertebrate Zoology 67(2): 125-132, doi:
Chondrostoma esmaeilii, a new cyprinid species from the Tigris basin in Iran (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
Soheil Eagderi‡, Arash Jouladeh-Roudbar, Sevil Sungur Birecikligil, Erdoğan Çiçek, Brian W. Coad‡ Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
Corresponding author: Soheil Eagderi ( soheil.eagderi@ut.ac.ir ) © Soheil Eagderi, Arash Jouladeh-Roudbar, Sevil Birecikligil, Erdoğan Çiçek, Brian Coad. 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, Jouladeh-Roudbar A, Birecikligil SS, Çiçek E, Coad BW (2017) Chondrostoma esmaeilii, a new cyprinid species from the Tigris basin in Iran (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Vertebrate Zoology 67(2): 125-132 |  |
Abstract
A new species of Chondrostoma is described from Iranian part of the Tigris river drainage. This species differs from other species of the genus Chondrostoma in Iran and Euphrates-Tigris river drainage by a combination of characters, including lack of a horny blade on lower jaw; arched mouth; 8 branched dorsal-fin rays (9 in holotype), and 10 branched anal-fin rays; 51 – 58 lateral line scales, 8 – 9 scales above the lateral line, 5 – 6 scales below the lateral line and short, 14 – 16 circum-peduncular scales, and 15 – 17 gill rakers along the entire gill arch.
Keywords
Cyprinidae, Freshwater fish, Biodiversity, Morphology