Alburnus selcuklui, M. Elp, F. Şen & Özuluğ, 2015

Freyhof, Jörg, Kaya, Cüneyt, Bayçelebi, Esra, Geiger, Matthias & Turan, Davut, 2018, Generic assignment of Leuciscus kurui Bogutskaya from the upper Tigris drainage, and a replacement name for Alburnus kurui Mangit & Yerli (Teleostei: Leuciscidae), Zootaxa 4410 (1), pp. 113-135 : 121

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.1.6

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scientific name

Alburnus selcuklui
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Alburnus selcuklui View in CoL , a synonym of A. sellal

Alburnus selcuklui View in CoL was described by Elp et al. (2015) from the upper Botan River drainage in Turkey. The Botan is one of the major tributaries of the upper Tigris. Elp et al. (2015) distinguish A. selcuklui View in CoL from A. sellal View in CoL by having a rounded snout (vs. pointed) and very slightly projected lower jaw (vs. distinctly projected) and having 10–15 gill rakers (vs. 13–17). We examined 20 individuals of Alburnus View in CoL from the type locality of A. selcuklui View in CoL and found all characters largely overlapping ( Table 2 View TABLE 2 ). The gill-raker counts between both species reported by Elp et al. (2015) are largely overlapping and we count 12–16 gill rakers in our specimens of A. selcuklui View in CoL and 10–17 in A. sellal View in CoL ; the two species cannot be distinguished by this character ( Table 2 View TABLE 2 ). Indeed, Alburnus View in CoL from the type locality of A. selcuklui View in CoL have a very short and round snout and the lower jaw is not as much projecting beyond the upper lip ( Fig. 6e View FIGURE 6 ). But this character state is not unique to this population and has also been found in other, geographically very distant populations as for example in the Great Zab drainage in Iraq (FSJF 3685, Fig. 6d View FIGURE 6 ). We found no difference between A. selcuklui View in CoL from A. sellal View in CoL in any of the morphometric characters examined including the snout length ( Table 3 View TABLE 3 ). In our molecular dataset, fish from the type locality of A. selcuklui View in CoL ( Fig. 6e View FIGURE 6 ) share DNA barcode sequences with A. sellal View in CoL . Without any morphological and/or molecular characters available to distinguish A. selcuklui View in CoL from A. sellal View in CoL , we treat A. selcuklui View in CoL as a synonym of A. sellal View in CoL .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Cyprinidae

Genus

Alburnus

Loc

Alburnus selcuklui

Freyhof, Jörg, Kaya, Cüneyt, Bayçelebi, Esra, Geiger, Matthias & Turan, Davut 2018
2018
Loc

Alburnus selcuklui

M. Elp, F. Şen & Özuluğ 2015
2015
Loc

A. selcuklui

M. Elp, F. Şen & Özuluğ 2015
2015
Loc

A. selcuklui

M. Elp, F. Şen & Özuluğ 2015
2015
Loc

A. selcuklui

M. Elp, F. Şen & Özuluğ 2015
2015
Loc

A. selcuklui

M. Elp, F. Şen & Özuluğ 2015
2015
Loc

A. selcuklui

M. Elp, F. Şen & Özuluğ 2015
2015
Loc

A. selcuklui

M. Elp, F. Şen & Özuluğ 2015
2015
Loc

A. selcuklui

M. Elp, F. Şen & Özuluğ 2015
2015
Loc

A. selcuklui

M. Elp, F. Şen & Özuluğ 2015
2015
Loc

Alburnus

Rafinesque 1820
1820
Loc

Alburnus

Rafinesque 1820
1820
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