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The Tunisian Bleak Tropidophoxinellus chaignoni (Vaillant 1904), a species endemic to northeastern Tunisia, has recently been discovered in Wadi El Mellah, located in southern M'Sila, Algeria. Fish samples were collected on August 9, 2023, from the Wadi El Mellah in Algeria using a scoop net. Genetic pairwise distances between Tropidophoxinellus chaignoni haplotypes ranged from 0.007 to 0.028. The phylogenetic tree showed that the haplotype identified in Algeria belongs to the Tunisian Bleak clade and forms a monophyletic subclade with the species haplotype from the Abid River in Tunisia. This indicates the first known occurrence of the species in Algeria, highlighting a gap in research on the ichthyofauna of the country's continental freshwater systems. In this study, we document the presence of Tropidophoxinellus chaignoni in Algeria for the first time; using mitochondrial DNA cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene sequences as a DNA barcodeto confirm its identification.

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DNA Barcoding Tropidophoxinellus chaignoni First record Algeria

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Meriem TABABOUCHET, University of Bejaia, Faculty of Natural and life Sciences, Research Laboratory in Ecology and Environment, 06000 Bejaia, Algeria.

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Walter SALZBURGER, Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

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TABABOUCHET, M., SALZBURGER, W., & BOUGAHAM, A. F. (2024). First record of the Tunisian Bleak, <i>Tropidophoxinellus chaignoni</i> (Vaillant 1904) from Algeria (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Iranian Journal of Ichthyology, 11(4), 229–235. https://doi.org/10.22034/iji.v11i4.1049
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