Hypergastromyzon revisited, with descriptions of a new genus and two new species (Teleostei: Gastromyzontidae)
Author
Hui, Tan Heok
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2021
2021-09-07
69
336
363
journal article
10.26107/RBZ-2021-0056
2345-7600
7174178
5B5371C9-3B1D-4A21-B907-8B10D66BD54D
Hypergastromyzon
Roberts, 1989
Type
species:
Hypergastromyzon humilis
Roberts, 1989
.
Diagnosis.
Adapted from original diagnosis provided by
Roberts (1989: 91)
.
A gastromyzontine loach with head and body wide and strongly depressed (body depth at dorsal-fin origin 9.4–15.9% SL, body depth 8.4–10.6% SL, caudal-peduncle depth 5.2–8.0% SL); pectoral and pelvic fins greatly enlarged (pectoral-fin rays 24–28, pelvic-fin rays 17–20); pectoral-fin origin below eye; pelvic fins completely fused posteriorly; mouth small, about a third of head width, with horny jaw sheaths strongly curved; three pairs of very short barbels, two rostral and one maxillary; rostral cap fused with upper lip except around base of rostral barbels; lower lip with medial groove well developed posterolaterally but interrupted anteromedially; snout rounded in dorsal view, strongly pointed in lateral view; gill opening lunate, length about equal to eye diameter, above middle of pectoral-fin base; subopercular groove absent; base of first pectoral-fin ray separated from head by a deep groove parallel to anterior edge of fin ray on ventral side of head and continuous dorsally on head to behind base of fin ray; dorsal surface of pectoral-fin base without scales; supra-pelvic flap originating immediately behind pectoral-fin base and continuing as a free flap above anterior third of pelvic-fin base; abdomen without scales; pored lateral scale rows 57–78; very short anal-fin base (2.3–5.3% SL); first anal-fin pterygiophore not bifurcated proximally; total vertebral count 30–32. Mature