Cottus dorofeevi Sideleva & Zhidkov 2024, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Sideleva, Valentina G., Zhidkov, Zakhar V.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Scorpaeniformes; Cottidae; Cottus; Cottus dorofeevi; Valentina; Zhukov; dvina
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11165788; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11165788

Cottus dorofeevi sp. nov. Figs 2, 9, 10, 11; Tables 1–2 Cottus gobio — Sapunov, 1893 (in part): 238; Cottus gobio koshewnikowi — Berg 1949 (in part): 1147; Zhukov, 1965: 397; Cottus gobio — Leshchenko and Palchevskaya, 2012 (in part): 79. Holotype: ZIN 56916, SL 68.0 mm, Ovsyanka River, a tributary of the Western Dvina, Vitebsk region, Belarus, 55.5907 N 30.4080 E, August 24, 2022, collectors Z. V. Zhidkov and S.A. Dorofeev. Paratypes: ZIN 56917, n = 4, 27.5–66.4 mm, Ovsyanka River, a tributary of the Western Dvina, Vitebsk region, Belarus, 55.5907 N 30.4080 E, August 24, 2022, collectors Z. V. Zhidkov and S.A. Dorofeev; ZIN 56918, n = 2, SL 26.0 and 55.3 mm, Luzhesnyanka River, a tributary of the Western Dvina, Belarus, Vitebsk region, 55.2527 N 30.1431 E, depth 0.5 m, August 22, 2022, collectors Z. V. Zhidkov and S.A. Dorofeev; ZIN 7156, n = 2, SL 71.7 and 74.0 mm, Lake Ostrovito, Vitebsk, August 1886, collector Radivanovsky. Morphological diagnosis. Нead pointed anteriorly and considerably flattened in ... : Published as part of Sideleva, Valentina G. & Zhidkov, Zakhar V., 2024, Description of a new species of Cottus Linnaeus (Cottidae) from the Western Dvina / Daugava River system, Baltic Sea basin, based on integrative taxonomy, pp. 473-495 in Zootaxa 5447 (4) on pages 487-491, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5447.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/11150401 ...