Abstract
A new species of bitterling, Acheilognathus striatus sp. nov., is described on the basis of 57 specimens collected from the lower Yangtze River in Jiangxi Province, China. It can be distinguished from all congeners by the following combined characters: a pair of relatively long barbels, slightly longer than half of eye diameter; dorsal fin with three simple and 8–9 branched fin rays, anal fin with three simple and 7–8 branched fin rays; a black longitudinal stripe on body from the base of caudal peduncle, distinctly reaching anteriorly to the vertical line from the origin of dorsal fin, broader in males than in females; a scale distance between the longitudinal stripe and lateral line below the origin of dorsal fin; dorsal and anal fin margined with black band in males.
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Our thanks go to Yu Zeng and Fengkui Zhan for assistance with the collection management. Mingjun Cai kindly prepared for radiographing the specimen. We would like to express our deepest appreciation to Jinming Wu and Jianli Chen for specimen photographs. Funding support came from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 40432003), the Cypriniformes Tree of Life (CToL) project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSFEF-0431326) and the key project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX1-YW-08-01).
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Yang, Q., Xiong, B., Tang, Q. et al. Acheilognathus striatus (Family: Cyprinidae), a new bitterling species from the lower Yangtze River, China. Environ Biol Fish 88, 333–341 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-010-9645-6
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