A new species of trout from the Köprüçay River, a drainage of Mediterranean Sea, Türkiye (Salmoniformes, Salmonidae)
2024
Fahrettin Küçük | Gökhan Kalaycı | Salim Serkan Güçlü | Münevver Oral | Davut Turan
Salmo ekmekciae, new species, is described from the Köprüçay River, a drainage of Mediterranean Sea. It is distinguished from Salmo species in adjacent water by having 9–10 parr marks on flank; 11–13 scale rows between end of base of adipose-fin and lateral line; 22–24 gill rakers on first gill arch; a shorter distance between adipose-fin and caudal-fin base; a slenderer caudal peduncle; and a slenderer body at adipose-fin origin. According to the Bayesian, and maximum likelihood analyses, Salmo ekmekciae cyt b gene resulted in coherent trees supported by high bootstrap values.
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