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<mods:titleid="FD6F51406380B07BD803C9994A99526F">Is Garra rezai (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) a species known only from two widely disjunct areas in the Tigris drainage?</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="C25D14A14B68BC62DA8BDD5BE638F4FE">Marine and Inland Waters Sciences and Technology Department, Faculty of Fisheries, Ege University, Izmir, Turkiye & Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset, UK</mods:affiliation>
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in adjacent waters in having a combination of the following characters: Breast with embedded scales, predorsal mid-line covered by (12)13-18(19-21) scales, gular disc short and wide, 35-40 total lateral-line scales,
transverse scale rows between lateral line and pelvic origin, 15-18 circumpeduncular scales, axillary scale at pelvic origin large, 11-16 total gill rakers, usually
<paragraphid="9DBBB844A71F539E18BFC30BF283CC08"pageId="0"pageNumber="349">Known only from Kaynarca Stream (Murat drainage) in Euphrates. In Tigris; Yanarsu, Botan, Menfez, Hezil and Batman drainages, as well as from Aktoprak Stream, an uppermost drainage of Tigris River.</paragraph>
, we expected it to inhabit also other localities in Iran, Iraq and possibly Syria. In summary, this species occurs in various drainage areas and, in general, its populations appear to be in good condition; its IUCN status is suggested to be Least Concern.
Amongst all 73 lots, we had difficulty in identifying only five samples from the Aktoprak Stream station (FFR1821, n = 23). A total 18 of these samples were easily recognised as
and the values were grouped between the two species. Although GRs were analysed for control, these individuals did not match either species. The most notable example was an individual with 17 PreDs and
<figureCitationid="89E402BDB92739A4AC8CE4F89A44A757"captionStart="Figure 4"captionStartId="F4"captionText="Figure 4. Some intermediate specimens: FFR 4062, Aktoprak Stream, upper Tigris drainage, from the top, 65 mm SL, 67 mm SL, 69 mm SL, 71 mm SL."figureDoi="10.3897/zse.100.118766.figure4"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1010922"pageId="0"pageNumber="349">4</figureCitation>
). We encourage researchers to further study these populations, especially using molecular markers.
