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Karstsinnectes Zhou, Luo, Wang, Zhou & Xiao 2023

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Ecology of Rare and Endangered Species and Environmental Protection (Guangxi Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guilin, Guangxi 541004, China
  • 2. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Rare and Endangered Animal Ecology, College of Life Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, Guangxi 541004, China
  • 3. Administration Center of Guangxi Nonggang National Nature Reserve, Longzhou Guangxi 532400, China
  • 4. Key Laboratory of Environment Change and Resource Use, Beibu Gulf, Nanning Normal University, Nanning, Guangxi, 530001, China & Zhejiang Forest Resource Monitoring Center, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310020, China

Description

Genus

KarstsinnectesZhou, Luo, Wang, Zhou & Xiao, 2023

Karstsinnectes Zhou, Luo, Wang, Zhou & Xiao, 2023, 696 original descriptions.

Type species.

Oreonectes anophthalmus Zheng, 1981.

Diagnosis.

Base of anterior nostril tube-like and tip not elongated to barbel-like; anterior and posterior nostrils adjacent; lips with furrows; caudal peduncle with adipose crests; bony capsule of swim bladder opens posteriorly.

Remarks.

In the family Nemacheilidae, the genera Eonemachilus Berg, 1938; Karstsinnectes; Micronemacheilus Rendahl, 1944; Protonemacheilus Yang & Chu, 1990; Traccatichthys Freyhof & Serov, 2001; and Yunnanilus Nichols, 1925, are characterized by a tube-like anterior nostril with tip not elongated to barbel-like structure (Du et al. 2021, 2023). However, Karstsinnectes can be distinguished from Eonemachilus, Protonemacheilus, Traccatichthys, and Yunnanilus by anterior and posterior nostrils adjacent (vs. separated in Eonemachilus and Yunnanilus, closely set in Protonemacheilus and Traccatichthys) and from Micronemacheilus and Traccatichthys by lips with furrows (vs. with papillae).

Species included.

Karstsinnectes acridorsalis (Lan, 2013), K. anophthalmus (Zheng, 1981), K. hyalinus (Lan, Yang & Chen, 1996), K. longzhouensis sp. nov., and K. parvus (Zhu & Zhu, 2014).

Notes

Published as part of Ge, Jia-Yue, Nong, Zheng-Quan, Yang, Jian, Du, Li-Na & Zhou, Jia-Jun, 2024, Taxonomic revision of the cavefish genus Karstsinnectes (Cypriniformes, Nemacheilidae), with a description of a new species from Guangxi Province, China, pp. 663-673 in Zoosystematics and Evolution 100 (2) on pages 663-673, DOI: 10.3897/zse.100.118061

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References

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