Glyptothorax
Creators: name: Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash
name: Ghanavi, Hamid Reza
name: Freyhof, Jörg
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Siluriformes
Sisoridae
Glyptothorax

description: Key to species of Glyptothorax in Iran (expanded from Freyhof et al. 2001 and Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2021)
1a- Adipose length 1.5–3.0 times longer than distance between base of last dorsal ray and adipose origin; 13–17 serrae on pectoral spine, medial pit of thoracic adhesive apparatus with striae........................................ G. steindachneri
1b- Adipose length 0.6–1.2 times of distance between base of last dorsal ray and adipose origin; 5–14 serrae on pectoral spine; medial pit of thoracic adhesive apparatus without striae........................................................ 2
2a- Head and flank with tubercles (rarely absent in some individuals)........................................... G. cous
2b- Head and flank without tubercles, with or without roundish or elongate warts...................................... 3
3a- Upper head, back and flank without brown or black spots or blotches............................................. 4
3b- Upper head, back and flank with few or many, dark-brown spots and, or blotches (potentially faded in poorly preserved individuals).......................................................................................... 5
4a- Outer mandibular barbel not reaching pectoral-fin origin; thoracic adhesive apparatus slightly elevated; medial pit broad, its anterior end roundish; caudal peduncle depth 1.6–2.3 times its length................................. G. sardashtensis
4b- Outer mandibular barbel reaching pectoral-fin origin; thoracic adhesive apparatus strongly elevated; medial pit narrow and spear-blade shaped; caudal peduncle depth 1.1–1.3 times its length....................................... G. pallens
5a- Thoracic adhesive apparatus wider than long, as wide as long in juveniles (0.7 – 0.9 times longer than wide).............. 6
5b- Thoracic adhesive apparatus as wide as long or longer, 1.0–1.6 times longer than wide............................... 7
6a- Thoracic adhesive apparatus moderately elevated with few, short anteromedial striae; caudal-peduncle length 16–20% SL............................................................................................ G. vatandousti
6b- Thoracic adhesive apparatus elevated with many and long anteromedial striae; caudal-peduncle length 13–16% SL................................................................................................ G. kurdistanicus
7a- Anteromedial striae in thoracic adhesive apparatus long and numerous........................................... 8
7b- Anteromedial striae in thoracic adhesive apparatus short or absent............................................... 9
8a- Caudal-peduncle depth 1.3–1.6 times in its length; shortest middle caudal-fin ray 42–49% of longest ray of upper caudal lobe; caudal with pointed lobes; maxillary barbel as long as head (95–108% HL)........................... G. hosseinpanahii
8b- Caudal-peduncle depth 1.6–2.5 times in its length; shortest middle caudal ray 55–65% of longest ray of upper caudal lobe; caudal with rounded lobes; maxillary barbel shorter than head (72–91% HL)............................... G. galaxias
9a- Thoracic adhesive apparatus 1.3–1.6 times as long as wide............................................. G. silviae
9b- Thoracic adhesive apparatus 1.1–1.3 times longer than wide................................ G. alidaeii & G. shapuri
description: Published as part of Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash, Ghanavi, Hamid Reza & Freyhof, Jörg, 2023, Glyptothorax vatandousti, a new species of torrent catfish from the upper Karkheh drainage in Iran (Teleostei: Sisoridae), pp. 37-58 in Zootaxa 5315 (1) on pages 42-43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5315.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8130122