Gobio
Creators: name: Turan, Davut
name: Ekmekçi, Güler
name: Luskova, Vera
name: Mendel, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Gobio

description: Key to Gobio and Romanogobio species in Turkey
1 Caudal peduncle 1.5–2.5 times its depth.................................................................... 2
- Caudal peduncle 3.1–3.8 times its depth; Kura River.................................... .. Romanogobio macropterus
2 8–10 scale rows between dorsal fin origin and lateral line; 8–12 scales between posterior extremity of pelvic-fin base and anus.................................................................................................... 3
- 5–7 scale rows between dorsal fin origin and lateral line; 4–8 scales between posterior extremity of pelvic-fin base and anus...................................................................................................... 8
3 53–56 lateral-line scales.................................................................... G. maeandricus
- 39–49 lateral-line scales................................................................................ 4
4 Scales on belly approximately equal to pupil diameter; predorsal length 48–52. % SL....................... G. insuyanus
- Scales on belly markedly smaller than pupil; predorsal length 45–48 % SL........................................ 5
5 Scales on breast extending to isthmus; predorsal back markedly convex...........................................6
- Scales on breast not or slightly extending forward to the level of pectoral-fin origin, scales on pectoral-fin base often deeply embedded in skin; predorsal back slightly convex............................................................ 7
6 Interorbital distance approximately 1.4–1.6 times in eye diameter; caudal-fin length 12–17 % SL, anal fin length 20–24 % SL; 8–10 scales between posterior extremity of pelvic-fin base and anus.................................. G. intermedius
- Interorbital distance approximately 1.6–1.8 times in eye diameter; caudal-fin length 17–20 % SL, anal fin length 15–17 % SL; 10–14 scales between posterior extremity of pelvic-fin base and anus.................................. G. hettitorum
7 Length of lower jaw 1.3–1.4 times its maximum width.............................................. G. battalgilae
- Length of lower jaw 1.0–1.3times its maximum width............................................ G. microlepidotus
8 Interorbital distance 1.6–1.9 times in eye diameter; pelvic fin not reaching behind anus in females; head profile behind the nos- trils markedly convex...................................................................... G. gymnostethus
- Interorbital distance 1.0–1.6 times in eye diameter; pelvic fin reaching behind anus in female; head profile behind the nostrils
straight or slightly convex..............................................................................9 9 Breast naked or incompletely scaled, if breast scaled, scales extending forward of the level of pectoral fin origin; snout pointed, not or slightly concave anterior to the nostril............................................................... 10
- Breast completely scaled, scales extending to isthmus; snout rounded, distinctly concave anterior to the nostril.......... 11
10 Head length 28–30 % SL.................................................................... G. kovatschevi
- Head length 24–26 % SL.................................................................. G. cf. caucasicus
11 4–5 scales between posterior extremity of pelvic-fin base and anus; interorbital distance 1.1–1.3 times in eye diameter................................................................................................ G. bulgaricus
- 6–8 scales between posterior extremity of pelvic-fin base and anus; interorbital distance 1.4–1.6 times in eye diameter............................................................................................... G. sakaryaensis
description: Published as part of Turan, Davut, Ekmekçi, Güler, Luskova, Vera & Mendel, Jan, 2012, Description of a new species of genus Gobio from Turkey (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), pp. 56-65 in Zootaxa 3257 on pages 61-62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.280693