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Morphology of the only known population of Kessler’s gudgeon Romanogobio kesslerii (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) outside the Black Sea basin

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The Kessler’s gudgeon (Gobioninae) collected in 2009 from the San River at Sanok (Poland) has been described morphologically. This is the only known population outside of the Black Sea basin. For each fish, 35 biometric features of the body were measured. Selected meristic features were determined. Osteology was studied from cleared and stained specimens. The coefficient of variation for the body proportions ranges from 1.04% to 11.31% and its basic meristic formula was as follows: D III 7–8; A III 5–6; ll 41–44. The sensorial system was characterised by a connection of the canals: infraorbital with the supraorbital and the preoperculomandibular with the supratemporal; the presence of an opercular canal and a well developed supraorbital bone. In the branchial apparatus the presence of a 4th cartilaginous hypobranchial and the presence of a single sublingual bone was observed.

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This study was supported by a grant-in-aid of the University of Agriculture in Krakow to MN (BM-4217/KIiR/2012) and the project No. 0208.0805 of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. All the procedures involved were accepted by the 1st Local Ethics Committee in Krakow and any manipulations with protected species were allowed by the General Director for Environmental Protection.

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  1. Department of Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Oczapowski St. 5, 10-718, Olsztyn, Poland

    Jolanta Szlachciak

  2. Department of Ichthyobiology and Fisheries, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Spiczakowa St. 6, 30-198, Krakow, Poland

    Michał Nowak

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Szlachciak, J., Nowak, M. Morphology of the only known population of Kessler’s gudgeon Romanogobio kesslerii (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) outside the Black Sea basin. Biologia 70, 121–131 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1515/biolog-2015-0016

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