Abstract
A new species of the genus Glyptothorax, Glyptothorax obliquimaculatus sp. nov. is described from the Xiaohei River, a tributary of the Nanting River, Salween drainage, in southwestern Yunnan province, China. This new species can be distinguished from its congeners by the following combination of characteristics: unculiferous ridges of the thoracic adhesive apparatus extending anteriorly onto the gular region; body with irregular dark blotches scattered along lateral surface (blotches mostly oblique); skin smooth on head and body; dorsal spine smooth without serrations on its posterior margin; lips smooth; posterior margin of pectoral spine with 7–8 serrations; dorsal-fin base 11.0–13.2% SL; pectoral-fin length 15.6–19.6% SL; depth of caudal peduncle 8.6–9.8% SL; head width 19.1–24.0% SL; nasal barbel length 23.3–33.3% HL.
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This work was supported by National Basic Research Program of China (2007CB411600) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30730017). We especially thank Zhongkai Yang, Gengma forestry bureau, and Xiaofu Pan, Guohua Yu, KIZ, for help in collecting specimens. Many appreciations to Heok Hee Ng, National University of Singapore, for his kindness in providing some related papers and help in checking specimens. Wansheng Jiang thanks Lina Du and Lanping Zheng, KIZ, and Yuangee Wong, for revising the manuscript; and Jian Yang, KIZ, for providing base map; and Guihua Cui, Bo Yang, Shuwei Liu, Weiying Wang, Rui Ming and Mengni He, KIZ, and Chunguang Zhang, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for other aspects.
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Xiao-Yong Chen and Jun-Xing Yang contributed equally to this paper.
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Jiang, WS., Chen, XY. & Yang, JX. A new species of sisorid catfish genus Glyptothorax (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Salween drainage of Yunnan, China. Environ Biol Fish 87, 125–133 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-009-9572-6
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