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Cobitis brachysoma Chen & Chen, 2018

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Cypriniformes (Carps) > Cobitidae (Spined loaches)
Etymology: Cobitis: Greek, kobitis, -idos = a kind of sardine; also related with the voice Greek, kobios, Latin gobius = gudgeon (Ref. 45335);  brachysoma: Greek words "brachys" means short while "soma" means body, referring to the pointed head of the species..

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; benthopelagic. Subtropical

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China, Guangdong, Suijang River, Zengjiang river, and Nalongjiang river.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 5.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 129344)

Short description Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 3; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 5. he species of Cobitis is distinguished by the following set of characters: D III-7; A: III-5; V: I-6; P: I-7-8; C: IV-14-16-IV. Compressed and small head. Rounded snout. Location of the eyes are on the upper middle of the head. Small mouth with three pairs of short barbels. Colouration: Head sprinkled with many black dots, and a black stripe extended from the insertion of rostral barbels to eye. One small jet spot on the upper half of the caudal fin base and way smaller than eye diameter.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

This species occurs in Suijian River, Zengjiang River, and Nalongjiang River, Guangdong, China (Ref. 129344).

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Chen, Y.-X., H. Chen, D.-K. He and Y.-F. Chen, 2018. Two new species of the genus Cobitis (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae) from South China. Zool. Systematics 43(2):156-168. (Ref. 129344)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = No PD50 data   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.1   ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).