Aphanius anatoliae transgrediens (Ermin, 1946)

Schulz-Mirbach, Tanja, Reichenbacher, Bettina, Yildirim, M. Zeki & Atalay, M. Altuğ, 2006, Otolith characteristics of species, subspecies, and populations of Aphanius Nardo, 1827 (Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes) from Anatolia (Turkey), Journal of Natural History 40 (27 - 28), pp. 1687-1705 : 1696

Aphanius anatoliae transgrediens (Ermin, 1946)

( Figure 5c–f )

Locality—Lake Acı (four specimens)

Description. (1) Outline: elongate-trapezoid to almost rectangular; (2) excisura: wide and hardly incised; (3) rostrum: distinctly longer than the antirostrum, except in the specimen shown in Figure 5e ; (4) dorsal rim and (5) ventral rim: both straight or slightly curving and more or less smooth; (6) posterior rim: sloping; (7) crista superior: thickened in its anterior part and thinner posteriorly; (8) crista inferior: thin but distinctly expressed, the area beneath the crista shows a few small knobs; (9) inner face and (10) outer face: both flat or slightly convex.

Figures

Figure 5. Left sagittae of Aphanius anatoliae splendens (a, b), A. anatoliae transgrediens (c–f), and A. anatoliae sureyanus (g–n). (a, g–j) Females; (b–f, k–n) males.