Genetic revision of Caucasian barbels, the genus Barbus: one species plus, one species minus

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Event Abstract Back to Event Genetic revision of Caucasian barbels, the genus Barbus: one species plus, one species minus Boris A. Levin1*, Alexander Gandlin1 and Anna Barmintseva1 1 VNIRO, Russia The Eurasian barbs, the genus Barbus, are distributed mainly in drainages of Mediterranean, Black and Caspian Sea basins. The barbels are one of the common fish in the rivers of the Caucasus Mountains situated between Black and Caspian Seas. Despite most of Caucasian Barbus species were already studied phylogenetically by mtDNA marker cytb, the samples used in these studies were represented by one-two specimens. We sampled Caucasian rivers more intensively and checked all main drainages as well as several isolated rivers of Eastern Black Sea drainage (n = 104). Phylogenetic analysis based on two markers of mtDNA (COI and cytb) has confirmed four lineages previously reported in Caucasian rivers: B. ciscaucasicus, B. cyri, B. escherichii, and B. kubanicus as well as revealed a new lineage, locally distributed in rivers of Eastern part of Black Sea drainage. Probably new lineage is associated with B. rionicus that was synonymized previously with B. escherichii. The Sevan barbel B. goktschaicus is identical to B. cyri, and we consider the former as conspecific with the latter. Due to extended geographic coverage, we also clarified current ranges of species based on both genetic and morphologic analyses. Acknowledgements This study was supported by Russian Science Foundation 15-14-10020. Keywords: Caucasus, Cyprinidae, Barbus, molecular genetics, Taxonomy Conference: XV European Congress of Ichthyology, Porto, Portugal, 7 Sep - 11 Sep, 2015. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Phylogeny, Systematics and Genetics Citation: Levin BA, Gandlin A and Barmintseva A (2015). Genetic revision of Caucasian barbels, the genus Barbus: one species plus, one species minus. Front. Mar. Sci. Conference Abstract: XV European Congress of Ichthyology. doi: 10.3389/conf.FMARS.2015.03.00175 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 29 Nov 2015; Published Online: 29 Nov 2015. * Correspondence: Dr. Boris A Levin, VNIRO, Moscow, Moscow, Russia, borislyovin@mail.ru Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Boris A Levin Alexander Gandlin Anna Barmintseva Google Boris A Levin Alexander Gandlin Anna Barmintseva Google Scholar Boris A Levin Alexander Gandlin Anna Barmintseva PubMed Boris A Levin Alexander Gandlin Anna Barmintseva Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.