title: Reconfirming the hybrid origin and generic status of the Iberian cyprinid complex Squalius alburnoides.
abstract: The recent allocation of the cyprinid complex Squalius alburnoides to the genus Iberocypris in the Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes is refuted by confirming evidence of a close relationship with the genus Squalius. Squalius alburnoides is here defined as a complex based on the existence of a hybrid form with distinct genome combinations and ploidies and of a reconstituted nuclear non-hybrid male form also with hybrid origin.
authors.affiliation: Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Campo Grande C2-Piso 3, Lisboa, Portugal. mjpereira@fc.ul.pt
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Collares-Pereira
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Coelho
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002678:Chimera; D003530:Cyprinidae / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D016678:Genome; D008297:Male; D011003:Ploidies