Triplophysa incipiens

[[Triplophysa incipiens (Herzenstein 1888)]]

Triplophysa incipiens (Herzenstein, 1888) was originally described as a subspecies of Nemachilus bombifrons, and given species rank by Prokofiev (2002) in a paper about the T. bombifrons group. Prokofiev’s redescription of the air bladder (free posterior part of air bladder reduced and rudimentary) differs from the original description and those of many authors (Herzenstein 1888; Li 1979; Zhu 1989; Wu 1991). This discrepancy is attributed to the long storage of the specimen (Prokofiev, personal communication, 7 Nov 2005). “I suggest that in a case of absence of free swim bladder this case is artificial and is result of long time storage (+/-150 years). ...by my observation swim bladder of T. bombifrons, incipiens and edsinica is the same in shape as in T. strauchii for example”.