Discovery of a new minnow species in the Black and Marmara Sea basins, Türkiye

BAYÇELEBİ E.

ZOOSYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION, cilt.101, sa.3, ss.1155-1162, 2025 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 101 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2025
  • Doi Numarası: 10.3897/zse.101.153391
  • Dergi Adı: ZOOSYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, BIOSIS, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1155-1162
  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Using morphometric, meristic, molecular, and qualitative characters, it confirmed a specific status of a clade discovered. Phoxinus kottelati, a new species, is distributed in the southwestern Black and Marmara Sea drainages. It is distinguished by having the scales of the breast scaled but separated by unscaled areas anteriorly, a color pattern in the spawning period, and a blue spot between the eye and the mouth in males. Molecular data also indicate that Phoxinus kottelati is characterized by a 2.1% sequence divergence in the mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b (cyt b) gene from its closest relative P. strandjae, 2.8% from P. abanticus, and 3.0% from P. radeki.