Cobitis feroniae, a new spined loach from southern Latium, Italy (Teleostei: Cobitidae)

2024/05/29 by Riccardo Novaga, Davide Bellucci, Matthias F. Geiger +1 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Anatomy #Biology #Black spot #Cobitidae #DNA barcoding #Dorsal fin #Dorsum #Evolutionary biology #Fish <Actinopterygii> #Fish Biology and Ecology Studies #Fish fin #Fishery #Ichthyology and Marine Biology #Identification and Quantification in Food #Peduncle (anatomy) #Teleostei #Zoology

paper · doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5458.3.4

published in Zootaxa 5458(3), 385-402 (Q15088586)

openalex publication_date 2024/05/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Cobitis feroniae, new species, is described from central Italy. It is distinguished from C. zanandreai, its putatively closest relative, by having several, small, black dots below Z4; minute, black spot at the upper caudal peduncle, and the pigmentation in Z2 separated from pigmentation in Z1 anterior to the dorsal-fin origin. It is further distinguished from C. zanandreai by having 13 diagnostic nucleotide substitutions in the mtDNA COI barcode region, and a K2P nearest-neighbour distance of 2.9%.

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Discussions

• #newpaper New Spined Loach discovered! A team, including researcher M. Geiger (#LIB), has described a new species of tiny fishes from Italy as part of a Citizen Science activity. 👉 doi.org/10.11646 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]

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