Capoeta erhani, a new species of cyprinid fish from Ceyhan River, Turkey (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

Abstract

Capoeta erhani, new species, is described from the Ceyhan drainage, eastern Anatolia. It is distinguished from the other members of the C. trutta species-group (Capoeta species with numerous irregular black spots on the dorsal half of the body and dorsal and caudal fins) by a shorter dorsal fin, a less ossified last simple dorsal-fin ray, fewer scales in lateral line, fewer scales between anal-fin origin and lateral line. © 2008 by Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München, Germany.