Bohlen Jörg, Šlechtová Vendula
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Rumburská 89, 277 21 Liběchov, Czech Republic..
Zootaxa. 2016 Dec 4;4205(1):zootaxa.4205.1.5. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.1.5.
A new species, Leptobotia bellacauda is described from the lower Yangtze River basin. The new species is distinguished from all other species of Leptobotia by a combination of the following characters: body plain brown, prominent black bar in caudal fin, dorsal half of head dusky black, ventral half of head cream colour, eye well developed, lobes of caudal fin rounded, origin of pelvic fins beneath or anterior to dorsal-fin origin, and pectoral fin in adult males enlarged, with numerous tubercles.
一种新物种——美丽尾薄鳅被描述于长江下游流域。该新物种与薄鳅属的所有其他物种的区别在于以下特征的组合：身体呈素褐色，尾鳍有明显的黑色条纹，头部背侧半部为暗黑色，头部腹侧半部为乳白色，眼睛发育良好，尾鳍叶圆形，腹鳍起点在背鳍起点下方或前方，成年雄性的胸鳍增大，有许多瘤状突起。
