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

By

Bayçelebi, Esra

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-6-27

Original Publication

Zoosystematics and evolution

Volume

101

Series / Issue

Issue: 3

Pages

1155--1162

Subjects

cyt b , freshwater fish , Phoxinus , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.153391

 

Abstract

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.