Journal Article
Kayahschistura lokalayensis, a new genus and species of cave fish from Myanmar (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)
Kottelat, M. and Grego, J.
Record Number:
4580
Year:
2020
Journal:
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
Pages:
179–185
Volume:
Supplement No. 35
Abstract:
Abstract. Kayahschistura lokalayensis, new genus and species, is described from Lokalay Loku Gu Cave, Kayah
State, Myanmar. It is related with species of the genera Mustura, Pteronemacheilus, Physoschistura, Petruichthys
and Rhyacoschistura, but cannot be placed in any of the presently named genera. It is distinguished by the absence
of colour pattern, the eye very regressed and at the bottom of a longitudinal slit, the presence of a suborbital flap,
the forked caudal fin, the presence of a large posterior chamber of the air bladder in the abdominal cavity, and the
modified pectoral-fin rays, especially the presence of numerous small tubercles on the dorsal surface of branched
rays 1–3 and membranes between them.
Key words. Kayah State, biospeleology, loaches, Cobitoidei
Times Cited:
1
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Related Records:
Kottelat, M. and Grego, J. (2020)
Kayahschistura lokalayensis, a new genus and species of cave fish from
Myanmar (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)