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New species of the genus Careproctus (Liparidae) from the Kara Sea and identification key for congeners of the North Atlantic and Arctic

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Five new Arctic species of the genus Careproctus (Liparidae) are described from the Kara Sea. Four species are included in the species-group “C. dubius” (pupil of eye is slit-like, lower lobe of the pectoral fin longer than the upper pectoral-fin lobe, skin prickles cactus-like, large urogenital papilla present). Careproctus rosa sp.n. was collected between the archipelago Novaya Zemlya and the Yamal Peninsula (at a depth 140 m), C. uter sp.n. was found in the Novaya Zemlya Depression (206 m); C. karaensis sp.n. and C. carinatus sp.n. were collected pelagically above the eastern slope of the Novaya Zemlya Depression. The fifth species, C. mica sp.n., which is included in the subgenus Careproctula, was found at the south of the Novaya Zemlya Depression (204 m). The type specimens are stored in the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint-Petersburg). The specimens were obviously collected in water with negative temperatures. A key for identification of 22 Careproctus species is included, for all tadpole snailfishes of the North Atlantic and the Arctic.

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Chernova, N.V. New species of the genus Careproctus (Liparidae) from the Kara Sea and identification key for congeners of the North Atlantic and Arctic. J. Ichthyol. 54, 757–780 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S003294521410004X

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