Natura Croatica Issue number: Natura Croatica, Vol. 9 No.2

Opis nove vrste, Phoxinellus dalmaticus (Cyprinidae: Leuciscinae), iz rijeke Čikole u slivu rijeke Krke, Jadranski bazen (Hrvatska)

Authors: Primož Zupančič, Nina G. Bogutskaya

Authors and affiliation

  • Primož Zupančič AZV Agency, Dolsko 14, SI–1262, Slovenia
  • Nina G. Bogutskaya Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb. 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia

Abstract

Phoxinellus dalmaticus, new species, is described from the ^ikola River in the Krka River system in Croatia. It is distinguished from congeners by a suite of characters which includes a naked body with scales only in a relatively short, often interrupted, lateral line series (sq. l. 18–44) formed from both pored (l. l. 16–29) and unpored scales, a low number of vertebrae (37 or 38 total) with 21 vertebrae in the abdominal and 16 or 17 in the caudal region, a shallowly forked caudal fin with considerably rounded lobes and the lack of a foramen between the cleithrum and coracoid.

Keywords

Phoxinellus dalmaticus, new species, Leuciscinae, Cyprinidae, systematics

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