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Issue: Vol. 2164 No. 1: 21 Jul. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-07-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2164.1.3
Page range: 33–40
Abstract views: 87
PDF downloaded: 21

Devario xyrops, a new species of danionine fish from south-western Myanmar (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, PO Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, PO Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
Fish Rakhine Yoma Thandwe Bangladesh colour pattern endemism

Abstract

Devario xyrops is described from small rivers on the western slope of the Rakhine Yoma in south-western Myanmar. It is distinguished from all other species in the genus except D. anomalus by its colour pattern including a dark blotch or condensed series of vertical bars anteriorly on the side, separate from a posterior dark horizontal band; and distinguished from D. anomalus in particular by deeper body (29.9–35.8% SL, vs. 25.0–26.8 % SL) and fewer lateral line scales (31–33, modally 32 vs. 33–35, modally 34).

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