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| Two new species of the genus Cobitis (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae) from South China |
| Yongxia Chen1, Hao Chen1, Dekui He2, Yifeng Chen2 |
| 1College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, Hebei, China; E-mail: chenyongxia@hbu.edu.cn
2Laboratory of Biological Invasion and Adaptive Evolution, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China |
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Abstract Two spined loaches, Cobitis oxycephala Chen YX & Chen YF, sp. nov. and C. brachysoma Chen YX & Chen YF, sp. nov., are described based on specimens collected from Guangdong and Hainan Provinces, South China. Morphology features and sequences of mitochondrial cytochrome b gene of these two new species were analyzed. Morphological and molecular data show that C. oxycephala Chen YX & Chen YF, sp. nov. is closely related to C. dolichorhynchus Nichols, and C. brachysoma Chen YX & Chen YF, sp. nov. is closely related to C. microcephala Chen & Chen. These two new species can be distinguished from their congeners by the combination of characteristics of body shape, color pattern, lamina circularis, mental lobes, suborbital spine, subdorsal scales, and caudal peduncle.
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| Fund:This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31372166) and the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province of China (C2016201055) |
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Corresponding Authors:
Yifeng Chen
E-mail: chenyf@ihb.ac.cn
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