Three new species of algae-scraping cyprinid from Tigris River drainage in Iran (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
Arash JOULADEH-ROUDBAR , Soheil EAGDERI Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Alborz, Iran.
Leidys MURILLO-RAMOS, Hamid Reza GHANAVI Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Ignacio DOADRIO Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology Department, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Abstract
Traditionally small-scale populations of Capoeta in the Tigris River drainage are identified as Capoeta damascina. The recent finding revealed that some populations of small-scaled C. damascina species group are not identified as any described species. We examined these populations and the results showed that there are pronounced differences between them in morphological and molecular characters. Therefore based on differences found, here we describe three new small-scaled Capoeta species from Zohreh, Tireh and Gamasiab Rivers, Tigris River drainage, Iran.
