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Issue: Vol. 4323 No. 4: 25 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.4.3
Page range: 487–502
Abstract views: 66
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Re-description of Alburnus doriae, with comments on the taxonomic status of A. amirkabiri, A. mossulensis, A. sellal and Petroleuciscus esfahani (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
Ichthyology and Molecular Systematics Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran. Research Department of Zoological Innovations (RDZI), Institute of Applied Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), 12587 Berlin, Germany.
Pisces Freshwater biodiversity taxonomy Cytochrome oxidase I Middle East

Abstract

The taxonomic status of five nominal species of cyprinid fishes from the Middle East is reviewed by applying morphological and molecular (COI) characters. Alburnus populations from the Iranian Lake Namak basin, the Zayandeh River drainage and the upper Karun River drainage are identified as A. doriae. Petroleuciscus esfahani, from the Zayandeh River, as well as Alburnus amirkabiri, from the Lake Namak basin, are synonyms of A. doriae. Molecular data support treating Alburnus mossulensis and A. sellal as a single species. As First Revisers we give precedence to A. sellal over A. mossulensis.

 

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