Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran. .
Faculty of Art and Science, Nevsehir Hac Bektas Veli University, Nevsehir, Turkey. .
Zootaxa. 2022 Jul 8;5162(4):410-420. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5162.4.5.
Cobitis indus, new species, from the Dalaman River drainage, is distinguished from other Cobitis species in the eastern Aegean Sea basin by having two laminae circularis, a bifurcate suborbital spine, a narrow caudal peduncle, pigmentation zone 4 with 1724 small blotches often fused into a stripe, pigmentation below Z4 usually absent, and one black, comma-shaped spot at the upper caudal-fin base. It is further distinguished from its closest relative, C. dorademiri, by having 13 diagnostic nucleotide substitutions in the mtDNA COI barcode region and a K2P nearestneighbour distance of 2.32.7%. This is the fourth Cobitis species found in the Dalaman River drainage making this river the most species-rich in spined loaches in the Middle East.
印度 cobitis，新种，来自代拉蒙河流域，与东爱琴海盆地的其他 cobitis 物种区别在于有两个圆鳞片状物、一个分叉的眶下刺、一个狭窄的尾柄、4 号色素带 1724 个小斑点常融合成一条条纹、4 号以下的色素通常不存在、以及上尾鳍基部的一个黑色逗号形斑点。它与最接近的亲缘物种 C. dorademiri 的区别在于 mtDNA COI 条码区域有 13 个诊断核苷酸取代和 K2P 最近邻距离为 2.32.7%。这是在代拉蒙河流域发现的第四个 cobitis 物种，使这条河成为中东棘鳅科物种最丰富的河流。
