Description of two new species of the genus Gobio (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Black Sea coast of Turkey |
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| Authors: | Davut Turan Bella Japoshvili İsmail Aksu Yusuf Bektaş |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Fisheries, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an University, Rize, Turkeydvtturan@yahoo.com;3. Department of Hydrobiology and Ichthyology, Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia;4. Faculty of Fisheries, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an University, Rize, Turkey |
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| Abstract: | Thesystematics of the genus Gobio, especially of the populations on the southern Black Sea coast, seems to be still far from being resolved. Seven species were rec-orded from the northern Black Sea coast while three species were recognized from the southern Black Sea coast. We examined in total 43 specimens from K?z?l?rmak River (southern Black Sea basin), 80 specimens from Çoruh River (the Western Cau-casus of the Black Sea basin), 14 specimens from Rioni River (the Western Caucasus of the Black Sea basin), and 6 specimens from Kherota and Shakhe Rivers (the Western Caucasus of the Black Sea basin). Based on an analysis of 32 metric and 5 meristic data as well as the number of vertebrae, we concluded that the K?z?l?rmak and Coruh populations are two distinct, unnamed species, and we describe them here as Gobio kizilirmakensis from the K?z?l?rmak River and G. artvinicus from the Çoruh River.http://www.zoobank.org/urn:urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1ED54FB1-588F-4412-B376-4BE4E4516EB1 |
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| Keywords: | Gudgeons taxonomy K?z?l?rmak River Çoruh River Anatolia |
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