Distribution and conservation of subterranean fishes of Iran: insights from a new locality

• Published in: Environmental biology of fishes Vol. 108; no. 1; pp. 161 - 170
• Main Authors: Hashemzadeh Segherloo, Iraj, Abdolahi-Mousavi, Seyed Eisa, Akbari Birgani, Ali, Normandeau, Eric, Hallerman, Eric, Bernatchez, Louis, Freyhof, Jörg
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.01.2025; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Aquifers; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Conservation; Environment; Fish; Fishing; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Garra; Genetic relationship; genomics; Geographical distribution; Habitats; Haplotypes; hybrids; Iran; Karst; karsts; Life Sciences; Local population; Mitochondrial DNA; Mountains; Nature Conservation; Population studies; species; Zoology; Iran; Mitochondrial DNA; Karst; Zagros Mountains; Subterranean fishes; Divergent evolution; Genotyping-by-sequencing

Here, we report a new locality for a subterranean species of Garra in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. The mitochondrial DNA of fish from this locality is closely related to that of G. typhlops , but genomic data and presence of a mental disc are indicative of a possibly hybrid origin for the analyzed...