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Taxonomy and Phylogenetic Relationships of Cyprinid Fish of Genus Hemiculter (Cyprinidae, Xenocypridinae): Sharpbellies of the Species Group Hemiculter lucidus

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On the basis of a comparative morphological analysis, the multi-rakered sharpbellies were divided into four groups, differing in the number of branched rays in the anal fin, the relative length of the head, body depth, the length of the spine of the dorsal fin, and the color of the peritoneum: Ussuri sharpbelly Hemiculter lucidus; the Buir-Nuur sharpbelly H. varpachovskii; sharpbellies from the basin of the Yangtze River (it is shown, that H. clupeoides is an available name for them); the sharpbellies from the Lower Amur basin described as an independent species, the status of which is confirmed by its differences from H. lucidus and H. clupeoides in the composition of haplotypes of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. The phylogenetic relationships of the species of multi-rakered sharpbellies are discussed, some problems of synonymy are considered, and a key for diagnosing the species is given.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Mori’s paper (Mori, 1927) was kindly gifted by professor, Dr. Chin-Sung Chang, Seoul National University, South Korea, to whom we are sincerely grateful. The results of molecular phylogeny were obtained using the equipment of Shared Resource Center “Far-Eastern Computing Resource” IACP FEB RAS (https://cc.dvo.ru). The authors are deeply grateful to anonymous reviewers for their analysis of the work and useful comments.

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Taxonomic studies of fish were carried out by E.D. Vasil’eva within the framework of the State Assignment of Lomonosov Moscow State University no. 121032300105-0.

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  3. Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity of the Far-Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

    I. L. Miroshnichenko & S. V. Shedko

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Vasil’eva, E.D., Vasil’ev, V.P., Miroshnichenko, I.L. et al. Taxonomy and Phylogenetic Relationships of Cyprinid Fish of Genus Hemiculter (Cyprinidae, Xenocypridinae): Sharpbellies of the Species Group Hemiculter lucidus. J. Ichthyol. 62, 327–347 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945222030171

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