Parasikukia maculata, a New Genus and New Species of Cyprinid Fish from Peninsular Thailand

• Doi Atsushi

  Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University

Abstract

Parasikukia maculata, a new genus and species of Cyprinidae, is described on the basis of two specimens collected from a small river in Phetchaburi Province, Thailand. The new form is similar to the species of Sikukia in having a deep body and adipose eyelids, but it differs from the latter in the cephalic lateral line system, the shape and number of gill rakers, the numbers of circumpeduncular scales and vertebrae, the position of the lateral line on the caudal peduncle, and the shape of the second hypural. Parasikukia maculata is unique among the small barbs of Southeast Asia in having a small, distinct, dark, saddle-shaped spot anterior to the origin of the dorsal fin.

Journal

• Species Diversity

  Species Diversity 5 (4), 391-396, 2000

  The Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology

Keywords

• Cyprinidae
• new genus
• new species
• Parasikukia maculata
• Thailand

Details

• CRID: 1390282679435202816
• NII Article ID: 110002344082
• NII Book ID: AA11114903
• DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.5.391
• ISSN: 21897301
• ISSN: 13421670
• NDL BIB ID: 5735141
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I5735141
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/specdiv/5/4/5_KJ00003893262/_pdf
• Text Lang: en
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