A new species of the genus Triplophysa (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae), Triplophysa daochengensis, from Sichuan Province, China.
Triplophysa daochengensis sp. nov. is described from the Daocheng River, a northern tributary of the Jinsha River in Sichuan Province, China. The new species can be distinguished from its congeners by the following characters: body smooth and scales absent; lateral line complete; caudal peduncle compressed, depth unchanging; head length equal to caudal-peduncle length; lower jaw shovel-shaped; dorsal-fin origin anterior to pelvic-fin origin and closer to the tip of the snout than to the caudal-fin base, last unbranched ray hard; pelvic-fin tip not reaching anus; posterior chamber of gas bladder absent; intestine of spiral type with three winding coils.
College of Life Sciences, China West Normal University, Nanchong Sichuan 637009, China.
Yu-Yi
YY
Wu
Sichuan Academy of Forestry, Chengdu Sichuan 610081, China. 594981460@qq.com.
Zhi-Yu
ZY
Sun
College of Life Sciences, China West Normal University, Nanchong Sichuan 637009, China. 850316857@qq.com.
Yan-Shu
YS
Guo
D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D003531:Cypriniformes / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D009928:Organ Specificity
Nemacheilidae; New species; Sichuan; Triplophysa
Dongwuxue Yanjiu. 2015 Sep 18;36(5):299-304
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