Oxynoemacheilus cilicicus, a new nemacheilid loach from the Göksu River in southern Anatolia (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4808 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
CÜNEYT KAYA ◽  
DAVUT TURAN ◽  
ESRA BAYÇELEBİ ◽  
GÖKHAN KALAYCI ◽  
JÖRG FREYHOF
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Lateral Line ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Nucleotide Substitutions ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Mtdna Coi ◽  
Southern Turkey

Oxynoemacheilus cilicicus, new species, is described from the Göksu, Seyhan and Ceyhan rivers in southern Turkey. It is distinguished from other Oxynoemacheilus species in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea basin by possession of an incomplete lateral line, terminating before the vertical of the dorsal-fin origin or slightly behind the dorsal-fin base, a deeply emarginate caudal fin, no suborbital groove in male individuals, and a series of dark-brown bars on the flank not interrupted along the lateral line. Molecular data suggest that Oxynoemacheilus cilicicus is characterised by 22 variable nucleotide substitutions and a minimum K2P distance of 4.09% with O. panthera in the mtDNA COI barcode region. 

Oxynoemacheilus amanos, a new nemacheilid loach from the Orontes River drainage (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4938 (5) ◽  
pp. 559-570
Author(s):  
CÜNEYT KAYA ◽  
BARAN YOĞURTÇUOĞLU ◽  
JÖRG FREYHOF
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Lateral Line ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
The Other ◽  
Caudal Fin ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Sea ◽  
River Drainage ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Infraorbital Canal

Oxynoemacheilus amanos, new species, is described from İncesu spring in the upper Hupnik drainage, a northern tributary of the lower Orontes in Turkey. It is distinguished from the other Oxynoemacheilus species in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea basin by possession of an incomplete lateral line with 23–45 pores, terminating between the vertical through the dorsal fin origin and the anus, 10–13 pores in the infraorbital canal, a deeply emarginate caudal fin, no suborbital groove in the male, and a series of irregularly shaped and set dark-brown bars on the flank, not connected to saddles on the back.  

Alburnus magnificus, a new species of bleak from the Orontes River drainage (Teleostei: Leuciscidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4559 (2) ◽  
pp. 373 ◽  
Author(s):  
JÖRG FREYHOF ◽  
DAVUT TURAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Lateral Line ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Sea ◽  
River Drainage ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Fin Ray ◽  
Coastal Rivers ◽  
A New Species

Alburnus magnificus, new species, is described from the northern Orontes River drainage in the eastern Mediterranean Sea basin. It is most similar and closely-related to A. qalilus from coastal rivers in Syria south of the Orontes. Alburnus magnificus is distinguished from A. qalilus by having the anal-fin origin below or behind the vertical through the last dorsal-fin ray, 4–5 scale rows between the lateral line and the anal-fin origin, and a flank pattern of bold black, grey or brown scales on a silvery or brown background. The two species are also distinguished by a minimum K2P distance of 1.8% in their COI sequence data. 

Garra orontesi, a new species from the Orontes River drainage (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4952 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-180
Author(s):  
ESRA BAYÇELEBİ ◽  
CÜNEYT KAYA ◽  
DAVUT TURAN ◽  
JÖRG FREYHOF
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Gill Rakers ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Sea ◽  
River Drainage ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Fin Ray ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Pelvic Fin

Garra orontesi, new species, is described from the Orontes River drainage in the eastern Mediterranean Sea basin in Turkey and Syria. It is distinguished from its congeners in the Mediterranean Sea basin and adjacent Mesopotamia by possessing 17–21 gill rakers on the lower part of the first gill arch, the pelvic-fin origin usually below the second branched dorsal-fin ray, 8½ branched dorsal-fin rays, usually 2–3 scales between the tip of the pectoral and pelvic-fin origins, and no tubercles behind the upper posterior eye margin. It is also distinguished by a minimum K2P distance of 2.7% in its COI barcode region against G. rufa, and 3.9% against the geographically adjacent G. turcica. 

Paracobitis abrishamchiani, a new crested loach from the southern Caspian Sea basin (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4545 (3) ◽  
pp. 375 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAMED MOUSAVI-SABET ◽  
SABER VATANDOUST ◽  
MATTHIAS F. GEIGER ◽  
JÖRG FREYHOF
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Caspian Sea ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Nucleotide Substitutions ◽  
The Caspian Sea ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Mtdna Coi ◽  
River Drainages ◽  
Southern Caspian Sea

Paracobitis abrishamchiani, new species, is described from the southern Caspian Sea basin, where it is found in the Babol, Haraz, Siah, Tajan, Talar and Kashpal River drainages. It is distinguished from P. hircanica and P. atrakensis, the two other Paracobitis species known from the Caspian Sea basin, by having scales on the flank posterior to the dorsal-fin origin and from its congeners in the Middle East by the position of its dorsal-fin origin, having a roundish posterior narial opening, and a colour pattern consisting of many widely spaced brown spots and blotches. It is further characterized by six diagnostic nucleotide substitutions and a minimum K2P distance of 4.3% to P. persa and 4.6% to P. malapterura in the mtDNA COI barcode region. 

scholarly journals A new genus and species of spionid polychaete (Annelida, Spionidae) from a deep-water cold seep site in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea off Turkey

Zoosymposia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-134
Author(s):  
JAMES A. BLAKE ◽  
PATRICIA A. RAMEY-BALCI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Microbial Mats ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Cold Seep ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Sea

A new spionid polychaete was discovered in deep-sea sediments in the eastern Mediterranean Sea during an expedition by the Ocean Exploration Trust. Specimens were collected by the E/V Nautilus in August 2012 off Turkey, at a depth of 2216 m on the Anaximander Seamount at the Amsterdam mud volcano site. Cores were taken from sediments covered with microbial mats. The new species belongs to the Pygospiopsis-Atherospio Group, which has unusual neuropodial hooks, modified neurosetae in some anterior setigers, and branchiae in middle body segments that are broad, flattened, and fused to the dorsal lamellae. The new species is assigned to a new genus and species, Aciculaspio anaximanderi n. gen., n. sp., and is unusual in having a reduced setiger 1 lacking notosetae; well-developed pre- and postsetal lamellae that encompass the neurosetae and notosetae; notopodial lamellae free from the branchiae in anterior setigers that become fused and flattened in middle and posterior segments; unidentate hooded hooks in both noto- and neuropodia; neuropodial spines in setigers 4–10; and a pygidium with three anal cirri. Aciculaspio anaximanderi n. gen., n. sp. is the first species in the Atherospio-Pygospiopsis Group collected from a deep-water cold seep habitat.

Pycnogonida (Arthropoda) from the eastern Mediterranean Sea with description of a new species of Anoplodactylus

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1686 (1) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANZ KRAPP ◽  
CENGIZ KOCAK ◽  
TUNCER KATAGAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Adult Stage ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Scuba Diving ◽  
Aegean Sea ◽  
First Record ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Northern Cyprus ◽  
A New Species

Material of Pycnogonida was collected by scuba diving and snorkelling in the eastern Mediterranean Sea from the Aegean Sea to northern Cyprus in 1995–2002; some additional samples were taken in 2006 (mainly in Gencelli Cove, Turkey). This yielded the first record of Ammothella appendiculata for the region. A. longioculata and Callipallene spectrum are newly recorded for Turkey. A hitherto undescribed and tiny species of Anoplodactylus was found. The insufficiently known adult stage of Ammothella uniunguiculata is figured by SEM photograph.

A new sea-nettle from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: Chrysaora pseudoocellata sp. nov. (Scyphozoa: Pelagiidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4790 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-244
Author(s):  
ERHAN MUTLU ◽  
I. TULAY ÇAĞATAY ◽  
M. TUNCA OLGUNER ◽  
HASAN EMRE YILMAZ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Coi Gene ◽  
Dark Spot ◽  
Northern Indian Ocean ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Sea Nettle ◽  
Source Populations ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Chrysaora is described from five specimens collected off Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea during December 2018. The species is characterised by its pale exumbrella, milky to creamy in colour, bearing faint and narrow markings, strap-like marginal tentacles, semi-rounded to tongue-shaped lappets, and a prominent dark spot on the exumbrella above each rhopalium. Analysis of the COI gene indicates that it may be most closely related to Chrysaora africana (Vanhöffen 1902), from which it is nevertheless 10.2 % different. It is unclear whether the species represents a previously undetected and endemic species from the Mediterranean, or whether source populations are located in the Red Sea and the northern Indian Ocean. 

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