supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31872202,31401956,31272275);Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute,Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y4ZK111B01)。
DEAR EDITOR,High mountainous terrains facilitate the diversification of biota by providing a variety of opportunities for isolation(Favre et al.,2015).Within the Nemacheilidae family of loaches,the highly diverse Nema...
DEAR EDITOR,A new torrent catfish species,Liobagrus chengduensis sp.nov.,is described from the Xihe River,a tributary of the Minjiang River,Qionglai City,Chengdu City,Sichuan Province,China.It can be distinguished fro...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31960103);Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Y4ZK111B01)。
DEAR EDITOR,Guigarra cailaoensis sp.nov.,a new genus and species of Labeoninae,was collected from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,China.It differs from all other genera within Labeoninae by a unique combination of th...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31972868)。
Triplophysa xuanweiensis sp.nov.,a new blind loach species from the family Nemacheilidae,is described based on specimens collected from a subterranean river in Xuanwei City,Yunnan Province,China.The new species can be...
funded by the Middle-Aged and Young Teachers’Basic Ability Promotion Project of Guangxi,China(2020KY02026);National Project of Undergraduate on Innovation and Entrepreneurship(202110602064);Key Laboratory of Ecology of Rare and Endangered Species and Environmental Protection(Guangxi Normal University);Ministry of Education(ERESEP2020Z22);Guangxi Key Laboratory of Rare and Endangered Animal Ecology,Guangxi Normal University(19A0104);Guangxi Natural Science Foundation Program(2020GXNSFAA238031)。
A new species of the genus Troglonectes is described from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,China.Troglonectes hechiensis sp.nov.can be easily distinguished from its congeners based on the following characters:eyes nor...
A new freshwater goby, Rhinogobius immaculatus sp. nov., is described here from the Qiantang River in China. It is distinguished from all congeners by the following combination of characters: second dorsal-fin rays I...
supported by the Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute,Chinese Academy of Science(Y4ZK111B01)
Freshwater fish from the Putao and Myitkyina areas were collected in three ichthyofaunal surveys of the Mall Hka River and tributaries in and around Khakaborazi National Park and Hponkanrazi Wildlife Sanctuary, Kachin...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC 31272306,31400359,31401968)
Fish of the superfamily Cobitoidea sensu stricto (namely Ioaches) exhibit extremely high diversity of color patterns, but so far little is known about their evolutionary mechanism. Melanocortin 1 receptor gene (MCI...
Foundation items: This study was financially supported by an International Biodiversity Assessment Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GJHZ201317)ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author is indebted to Tao Qin of KIZ for his enthusiastic support during the survey to Dehong that yielded the specimen KIZ 2015000184 and subsequent}y prompted further research.
The natural distributional range of the cobitid loach Lepidocephalichthys alkaia is extended into Yunnan Province, China. The modified sexually dimorphic pectoral fin in males of L. alkaia is described.
Foundation items: This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 30870290, 31071891 and 31471968)ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We extend our thanks to Dr. Robert W. MURPHY for his valuable comments on this manuscript. We thank Jin-Min CHEN (Yunnan University), Bao-Lin ZHANG (Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS) and Li-Fang PENG (Nanjing Forestry University) for their help in data processing. We further thank Dian- Cheng YANG (Nanjing Forestry University) and Jun-Sheng CUI (Anhui Agricultural University) for sampling.
Six main mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages have been described in minnow (Zacco platypus) samples obtained from northern, western and southern China Perdices et al. (2004) predicted that further sampling of oth...