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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
LHASA, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) — A new fish species has been discovered in Chayu County of southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region (XAR), which will help better study fish diversity and biological evolution in the Himalayan region, the Institute of Plateau Biology of the XAR said Saturday.
This species, named Glaridoglanis verruciloba sp. nov., is a newly identified glyptosternine catfish distinguished by an enlarged lower lip with four to seven warty lobes on the central-posterior margin and other distinct morphological features.
The first fish specimens were collected by a joint research team from the above-mentioned institute and the Xizang Museum of Natural Sciences, Zaozhuang University and the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in April of this year in the Chayu River in Xizang, which had long been misidentified as their relatives, G. andersonii.
Using morphological and molecular phylogenetic analysis, the research team confirmed that the fish samples belong to a new species, according to their study published Wednesday in the international scientific journal ZooKeys.
According to the researchers, as the third valid species recognized in the genus Glaridoglanis, this species provides valuable new material for studying the origin, diversification and adaptive evolution of freshwater fishes living along the southeastern edge of the Himalayas. -0-
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