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, a New Blind Fish from the Three Gorges of Yangtze River Provides Insights into Speciation of Chinese Cavefish

Overview
Journal Zool Res
Publisher Science Press
Specialties Biology
Veterinary Medicine
Date 2019 Oct 9
PMID 31592584
Citations 11
Authors
Wan-Sheng Jiang
Jie Li
Xiao-Zhong Lei
Zhou-Rui Wen
Yu-Zhang Han
Jun-Xing Yang
Jian-Bo Chang
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Abstract

A blind fish of (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) was caught in open water in the Three Gorges (Sanxia) reservoir, at a depth of 20 m in the mainstream of Yangtze River in Zigui County, Hubei Province, China. This fish can be easily distinguished from all other congeners by external morphological characteristics, and is estimated to have diverged from its sister group about 0.55 million years ago (Ma). The geologically well separated locality of this species has expanded the distribution of cavefish from around N25°(latitude) to above N30°. Herein, we describe this new species as ., and discuss the possible reasons why the species appears, surprisingly, in the Three Gorges reservoir.

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