Aphanius anatoliae splendens (Kosswig and Sözer, 1945)

Schulz-Mirbach, Tanja, Reichenbacher, Bettina, Yildirim, M. Zeki & Atalay, M. Altuğ, 2006, Otolith characteristics of species, subspecies, and populations of Aphanius Nardo, 1827 (Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes) from Anatolia (Turkey), Journal of Natural History 40 (27 - 28), pp. 1687-1705 : 1695

Aphanius anatoliae splendens (Kosswig and Sözer, 1945)

( Figure 5a, b )

Locality—Lake Salda (three specimens)

Description. (1) Outline: trapezoid; (2) excisura: deeply incised, U- or V-shaped; (3) rostrum: slightly longer than the antirostrum; (4) antirostrum: tip slightly bent in the ventral direction in the specimen illustrated in Figure 5b ; (5) dorsal rim: slightly convex ( Figure 5a ) or distinctly convex ( Figure 5b ) and crenulate; (6) posterior rim: provided with a broadened edge (see Figure 5a ) on the sulcus level; (7) ventral rim: straight, crenulate; (8) crista superior: bulging; the area above the crista is more ( Figure 5a ) or less ( Figure 5b ) distinctly deepened; (9) crista inferior: weakly developed; the area beneath shows knobs or is granulated; (10) inner face: flat or moderately convex; (11) outer face: thickened in the posterior part or completely flat with concave tendency; one pair of otoliths is biconvex with a distinctly convex outer face.

Figures

Figure 5. Left sagittae of Aphanius anatoliae splendens (a, b), A. anatoliae transgrediens (c–f), and A. anatoliae sureyanus (g–n). (a, g–j) Females; (b–f, k–n) males.