title: Leptobotiabellacauda, a new species of loach from the lower Yangtze basin in China (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Botiidae).
abstract: A new species, Leptobotia bellacauda is described from the lower Yangtze River basin. The new species is distinguished from all other species of Leptobotia by a combination of the following characters: body plain brown, prominent black bar in caudal fin, dorsal half of head dusky black, ventral half of head cream colour, eye well developed, lobes of caudal fin rounded, origin of pelvic fins beneath or anterior to dorsal-fin origin, and pectoral fin in adult males enlarged, with numerous tubercles.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Rumburská 89, 277 21 Liběchov, Czech Republic.. bohlen@iapg.cas.cz.
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bohlen
authors.forename: Vendula
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Šlechtová
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D003531:Cypriniformes / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D005843:Geography; D008297:Male; D045483:Rivers
keywords: Pisces, Morphology, taxonomy, Anhui, Shitai, Ningguo, sexual dimorphism