TY  - GEN
A1  - Mamaghani-Shishvan, Mahmoud
A1  - Esmaeili-Rineh, Somayeh
T1  - Two new species of groundwater amphipods of the genus Niphargus
Schiödte, 1849 from northwestern Iran
T2  - European journal of taxonomy : 546
N2  - This study was conducted to describe and illustrate two new species of groundwater amphipods from the northern parts of the Zagros Mountains in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. Mitochondrial (COI) and nuclear (28S rDNA) fragments as well as several morphological traits were used to characterize Niphargus urmiensis sp. nov. and Niphargus fiseri sp. nov. The phylogenetic analyses showed that the nucleotide differences between the recently described species and their close allies are attributed to their distinctiveness. The molecular analysis also introduced that the new species are placed within the clade comprising Iranian species as a sister taxon. The genetic distances between N. urmiensis sp. nov. and N. fiseri sp. nov. are 7.6% and 1.6%, respectively based on the COI and 28S rDNA gene fragments.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 546 
KW  - 28S rDNA and COI genes
KW  - morphological data
KW  - new niphargids
KW  - taxonomy
KW  - West Azerbaijan Province
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53810
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-538105
SN  - 2118-9773
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -