Description of a new species, Phoxinellus dalmaticus (Cyprinidae: Leuciscinae), from the Čikola River in the Krka River system, Adriatic basin (Croatia)

Abstract

Zupan~i~, P. & Bogutskaya, N. G.: Description of a new species, Phoxinellus dalmaticus (Cyprinidae: Leuciscinae), from the ^ikola River in the Krka River system, Adriatic basin (Croatia). Nat. Croat., Vol. 9, No. 2., 67–81, 2000, Zagreb. Phoxinellus dalmaticus, new species, is described from the ^ikola River in the Krka River system in Croatia. It is distinguished from congeners by a suite of characters which includes a naked body with scales only in a relatively short, often interrupted, lateral line series (sq. l. 18–44) formed from both pored (l. l. 16–29) and unpored scales, a low number of vertebrae (37 or 38 total) with 21 vertebrae in the abdominal and 16 or 17 in the caudal region, a shallowly forked caudal fin with considerably rounded lobes and the lack of a foramen between the cleithrum and coracoid.