Cobitis kellei, Erk'akan, Atalay-Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998

Freyhof, Jörg, Bayçelebi, Esra & Geiger, Matthias, 2018, Review of the genus Cobitis in the Middle East, with the description of eight new species (Teleostei: Cobitidae), Zootaxa 4535 (1), pp. 1-75 : 23

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4535.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:ABE9DB1F-7378-4571-90C4-A3FDB66527F3

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5699551

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BB0D18-1F2E-FFE7-718B-FF6BFB73FD76

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Plazi

scientific name

Cobitis kellei
status

 

Cobitis kellei View in CoL Erk'akan, Atalay-Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998

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Cobitis kellei View in CoL Erk'akan, Atalay-Ekmekçi & Nalbant, 1998: 10, fig. 1 (type locality: Turkey: Tigris drainage: Göksu stream, Çınar, Diyarbakir).

Material examined. None

Material used in molecular genetic analysis. None

Diagnosis. Cobitis kellei is distinguished from C. avicennae from the Iranian Tigris drainage by having one row of indistinct, minute, roundish, dark-grey dots in Z4 (vs. distinct, large dark-brown blotches in Z4, usually horizontally elongated on the anterior body, roundish or vertically elongated on caudal peduncle) and from C. elazigensis from the Euphrates drainage by having one lamina circularis in the male (vs. two).

Distribution. Cobitis kellei has only been found once in the stream Göksu in the upper Tigris drainage.

Remarks. Cobitis kellei was found only once, in 1974, but has not been found since, despite intensive research in the area (E. Ünlü pers. comm. 2014, C. Kaya pers. comm. 2018, own field data). The stream Göksu has been dammed in its lower part, but its middle and upper part are in a good ecological status with clear water and many fish. It remains unclear why C. kellei has not been found again in the stream Göksu or elsewhere.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Cobitidae

Genus

Cobitis

Loc

Cobitis kellei

Freyhof, Jörg, Bayçelebi, Esra & Geiger, Matthias 2018
2018
Loc

Cobitis kellei

Erk'akan, F. & Atalay-Ekmekci, F. G. & Nalbant, T. T. 1998: 10
1998
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