Cobitis troasensis, Freyhof, Baycelebi & Geiger, 2018

Freyhof, JÖrg, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash & Kaya, Cüneyt, 2025, Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia, De Gruyter : 464

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111677811

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17820721

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C85F87D2-FE77-FE3C-2885-FF5EFD10FA60

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scientific name

Cobitis troasensis
status

 

Cobitis troasensis View in CoL

Common name. Dardanelles spined loach.

Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Cobitis in eastern Aegean basin by: ● 25–36, small, comma-shaped blotches in Z4 along anterior and middle part of flank / ○ focal zone of subdorsal scale small, about ⅓–⅒ of vertical scale diameter / ○ flank without pigmentation below zone Z4 / ○ body pale-yellowish or whitish / ○ blotches squarish or irregular shaped on posterior part of flank, rarely fused into short stripes / ○ one lamina circularis in male. Size up to 76 mm SL.

Distribution. Türkiye: Tuzla drainage.

Cobitis turcica ; Lake Tuz basin, Türkiye; female, 76 mm SL.

Cobitis turcica ; Lake Tuz basin, Türkiye; female, ~ 70 mm SL.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Cobitidae

Genus

Cobitis

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