Gammarus cryptosalemaai, Grabowski & Wysocka & Mamos, 2017

Grabowski, Michał, Wysocka, Anna & Mamos, Tomasz, 2017, Molecular species delimitation methods provide new insight into taxonomy of the endemic gammarid species flock from the ancient Lake Ohrid, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181, pp. 272-285 : 280-281

GAMMARUS CRYPTOSALEMAAI SP. NOV.

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Materials examined: Numerous individuals, both females and males, collected in a small spring on the coast of Lake Ohrid, Albania (locus typicus).

Type: An adult male individual body length of 7 mm, collected on 12 September 2006, as well as the DNA voucher (extracted DNA in buffer) deposited in Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish Academy of Sciences. Catalogue number: MIZ 11/2016/7. GenBank accession numbers: KX232935 for cox I and KX233107 for 16S rRNA. Paratypes: two specimens fixed in 96% ethanol, collected with the holotype (catalogue numbers: MIZ 11/2016/8-MIZ 11/2016/9). GenBank

Diagnostic characteristics: At this position in the alignment, the base is found only in one species.

Partial characteristics: At this position in the alignment, the base is found in all sequences in this one species; however, it is also found in some, but not all, sequences in other species.

accession numbers: KX233047 for cox I and KX233218 for 16S rRNA .

Type locality: small spring on the coast of Lake Ohrid , N40.9062, E20.7273, Albania .

Distribution and habitat: The species is a member of the Lake Ohrid endemic species flock (sensu Wysocka et al., 2013). So far it was found in the type locality only.

Etymology: This new species is named to stress the fact that, so far, it is morphologically undistinguishable from its sister species, G. salemaai G. Karaman, 1985 .

Molecular diagnostic characters: BOLD analysis of species diagnostic characters revealed nine diagnostic and three partial characters for cox I as well as five diagnostic and three partial characters for 16S rRNA (details in Table 2).