Cobitis derzhavini, Freyhof & Yoğurtçuoğlu & Jouladeh-Roudbar & Kaya, 2025

Freyhof, JÖrg, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash & Kaya, Cüneyt, 2025, Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia, De Gruyter : 445

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111677811

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17820650

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C85F87D2-FE60-FE2B-28AB-FD74FD3BF9B1

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Felipe

scientific name

Cobitis derzhavini
status

 

Cobitis derzhavini View in CoL

Common name. Kura spined loach.

Diagnosis. Distinguished from other species of Cobitis in southern Caspian basin by: ● plate of lamina circularis not reaching end of third segment of attached pectoral ray / ● dark-brown spot at upper caudal base absent or poorly developed / ○ subdorsal scales with a small focal zone (about or less than ⅒ of maximum scale diameter) / ○ one lamina circularis in male. Size up to 80 mm SL.

Distribution. Azerbaijan and Georgia: Lower Kura drainage: Kara-Su and its tributaries, Agstafa, Mingechaur reservoir basin, and Katekh in Balaken region.

Cobitis dorademiri ; Lake KÖyceğiz basin, Türkiye; male, 87 mm SL.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Cobitidae

Genus

Cobitis

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