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Issue: Vol. 3453 No. 1: 5 Sep. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-09-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3453.1.3
Page range: 43–55
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 4

A new species of riffle minnow, Alburnoides holciki, from the Hari River basin in Afghanistan and Iran (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae)

Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1P 6P4
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab.1, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia
Fish Alburnoides Cyprinidae freshwater fishes new species Afghanistan Iran

Abstract

A new species of riffle minnow, Alburnoides holciki (Cyprinidae), is described from northwestern Afghanistan andnortheastern Iran. It is distinguished from related species by a combination of characters including a well-defined, sharp,scaleless or only slightly scaled ventral keel; a short, slightly pointed snout; a terminal mouth with the tip of the mouthcleft, on a level with the upper half of the pupil; a large eye (orbit width about equal to interorbital width); (46)47–51(55)lateralline scales to posterior margin of hypurals; 2.5–4.2 pharyngeal teeth; usually 8½ branched dorsal-fin rays; usually13–16½ branched anal-fin rays; 40–42, usually 41, total vertebrae; caudal vertebral region longer than abdominal region(most frequent vertebral formulae 20+21, 20+22 and 19+21); and usually 13 or 14 predorsal vertebrae. A comparison withAlburnoides species from rivers of the South Caspian Sea, the northern slope of the Kopetdag Mountains and the Amu Darya basin is provided.

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