West Asian Glyptothorax

[Silurus]

Sayyadzadeh, G, F Zarei & HR Esmaeili, 2022. Glyptothorax (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from the Middle East: an integrated molecular and morphological insight into its taxonomic diversity. Diversity 14: 884.

Abstract

The Glyptothorax species from the Middle East are taxonomically revised based on extensive geographic range and taxon sampling, tree topologies from mitochondrial COI and Cyt b and
nuclear RAG2 markers (2532 bps), molecular species delimitation and genetic distance analyses of DNA sequences against morphometric and morphological characters. A majority-rule consensus based on conceptually different molecular species delimitation analyses combined with the Bayesian and maximum likelihood tree topologies considered all the name-bearing Iranian endemic clades of Glyptothorax, except for G. pallens (i.e., G. alidaeii, G. galaxias, G. hosseinpanahii, G. shapuri and G. silviae) as a single molecular entity. We also lent our years of experience to the morphology of Iranian Glyptothorax populations and tried to perceive consistent morphological differences, but without success. Therefore, based on this integrated molecular and morphological study, we treat G. alidaeii, G. galaxias, G. hosseinpanahii and G. shapuri as conspecific with G. silviae. Furthermore, our molecular and morphological results confirmed the first record of G. cous in Iranian waters. The species G. armeniacus, G. cous, G. daemon, G. kurdistanicus, G. pallens, G. silviae and G. steindachneri are considered as valid species.

[bekateen]

G. alidaeii, G. galaxias, G. hosseinpanahii, G. shapuri have now been synonymized to

Glyptothorax silviae

, and their corresponding CLOG pages have been converted to species of Amphilius.

Amphilius lampei

,

Amphilius lamani

,

Amphilius korupi

and

Amphilius kakrimensis

.
I've submitted corrections to remove references to Glyptothorax on those new pages and overwrite with

Amphilius

info.

Cheers,
Eric