Vasil’eva E.D., Vasil’ev V.P., Miroshnichenko I.L., Shedko S.V.
В журнале Journal of Ichthyology
Год: 2022 Том: 62 Номер: 3 Страницы: 327–347
© 2022, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.Abstract: On the basis of a comparative morphological analysis, the multi-rakered sharpbellies were divided into four groups, differing in the number of branched rays in the anal fin, the relative length of the head, body depth, the length of the spine of the dorsal fin, and the color of the peritoneum: Ussuri sharpbelly Hemiculter lucidus; the Buir-Nuur sharpbelly H. varpachovskii; sharpbellies from the basin of the Yangtze River (it is shown, that H. clupeoides is an available name for them); the sharpbellies from the Lower Amur basin described as an independent species, the status of which is confirmed by its differences from H. lucidus and H. clupeoides in the composition of haplotypes of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. The phylogenetic relationships of the species of multi-rakered sharpbellies are discussed, some problems of synonymy are considered, and a key for diagnosing the species is given.
