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This study was conducted to investigate the morphological variation between seven populations of Oxynoemacheilus seyhanensis inhabiting three basins of Turkish inland waters. For this purpose, a total of 71 specimens were collected from Yildizeli, Taşköprü, Suşehri rivers (Kizilirmak basin), Büyükpotuklu, Pinarbaşi and Örenşehir rivers (Seyhan basin) and Akdağmadeni River (Yesilirmak basin). A total of 31 morphometric characteristics were measured. After standardization, data were analyzed using one-way ANOVA and Duncan, Kruskal-Wallis tests, principal component analysis (PCA), canonical variate analysis (CVA), non-parametric MANOVA and cluster analysis. The results showed significant differences in 26 traits between the studied populations of O. seyhanensis (P<0.05) revealing a high morphological flexibility of this deep-bodied species.
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Banarescu, V.P. 1968. Subwasserfische der Turkei, Erganze Angaben zu Teil 2: Cobitidae. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 65: 353-356.
Çiçek, E.; Birecikligil, S.S. & Fricke, R. 2015. Freshwater fishes of Turkey; a revised and updated annotated checklist. Biharean Biologists 9(2): 141-157.
Çiçek, E.; Eagderi, S. & Sungur, S. 2018a. Oxynoemacheilus veyseli, a new nemacheilid species from the upper Aras River drainage of Turkey (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Iranian Journal of Ichthyology 5(3): 232-242.
Çiçek, E.; Fricke, R.; Sungur, S. & Eagderi, S. 2018b. Endemic freshwater fishes of Turkey. FishTaxa 3(4): 1-39.
Çiçek, E.; Sungur, S. & Fricke, R. 2020. Freshwater lampreys and fishes of Turkey; a revised and updated annotated checklist 2020. Zootaxa 4809(2): 241-270.
Dean, C.A.; Rholf, F.J. & Dennis, E.S. 2004. Geometric morphometrics: Ten years of progress following the revolution. Italian Journal of Zoology 71: 5-16.
Erk’akan, F. & Kuru, M. 1986. A new Noemacheilinae loach subspecies from Turkey (Osteichthyes, Cobitidae). Turkish Journal of Biology 10(1):106–109.
Garrod, J.D. & Horwood, J.W. 1984. Reproductive strategies and the response to exploitation. In: G.W. Potts, R.J.Wootton (Eds.). Fish Reproduction. Academic Press. pp: 367-384.
Haddon, M. & Willis, T.J. 1995. Morphometric and meristic comparison of Orange Roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus, Trachichthyidae) from the Puysegur Bank and Lord-Howe- Rise, New-Zealand, and its implications for stock structure. Marine Biology 123: 19-27.
Jerry, D.R. & Cairns, S.C. 1998. Morphological variation in the catadromous Australian bass, from seven geographically distinct riverine drainages. Journal of Fish Biology 52(4): 829-843.
Jolliffe, I.T. 2002. Principal Component Analysis. Springer, New York. USA.
Kaya, C.; Turan, D.; Bayçelebi, E.; Kalaycı, G. & Freyhof, J. 2020. Oxynoemacheilus cilicicus, a new nemacheilid loach from the Göksu River in southern Anatolia (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4808(2): 284-300.
Marcil, J.; Swain, D.P. & Hutchings, J.A. 2006. Genetic and environmental components of phenotypic variation in body shape among populations of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.). Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 88(3): 351-365.
Mouludi-Saleh, A.; Eagderi, S.; Poorbagher, H. & Kazemzadeh, S. 2019. The effect of body shape type on differentiability of traditional and geometric morphometric methods: A case study of Channa gachua (Hamilton, 1822). IUFS Journal of Biology 78(2): 165-169.
Nelson, J.S.; Grande, T.C. & Wilson, M.V.H. 2016. Fishes of the World. Fifth Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. 707 p.
Sungur, S.; Jalili, P. & Eagderi, S. 2017. Oxynoemacheilus ciceki, new nemacheilid species (Teleostei, Nemacheilidae) from the Sultan Marsh, Kayseri Province, Turkey Iranian Journal of Ichthyology 4(4): 375-383.
Sungur, S. 2020. Oxynoemacheilus kosswigi a Junior Synonym of O. seyhanensis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions A: Science 1–11 (In Press).
Swain, D.P. & Foote, C.J. 1999. Stocks and chameleons: The use of phenotypic variation in stock identification. Fisheries Research 43: 113-128.
Turan, C. 1999. A note on the examination of morphometric differention among fish populations: the truss system. Turkish Journal of Zoology 23: 259-263.
Yoğurtçuoğlu, B.; Kaya, C.; Geiger, M.F. & Freyhof, J. 2020. Revision of the genus Seminemacheilus, with the description of three new species (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4802(3): 477-501.
Zamani Faradonbe, M.; Eagderi, S. & Moradi M. 2015. Patterns of body shape variation in Capoeta gracilis (Pisces: Cyprinidae) in relation to environmental variables in Sefidrud River Basin, Iran. Journal of Applied Biological Sciences 9(1): 36-42.