Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia

T Kuljanishvili, G Epitashvili, J Freyhof… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present a critical checklist of freshwater fish species found so far in the countries of
Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. In total 119 freshwater fishes are recorded. There are 40 …

[HTML][HTML] Insights on the existence of ancient glacial refugee in the Northern Black/Azov Sea Lowland, with the description of the first stygobiotic microcrustacean …

IN Marin, DM Palatov - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
A new species of the genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 (Crustacea: Amphipoda:
Niphargidae), co-existing with other stygobiotic amphipods, Diasynurella kiwi Marin and …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence for plio-pleistocene duck mussel refugia in the Azov Sea river basins

AA Tomilova, AA Lyubas, AV Kondakov, IV Vikhrev… - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida) play an important role in freshwater habitats as
ecosystem engineers of the water environment. Duck mussel Anodonta anatina is widely …

Parthenogenesis in Darevskia lizards: A rare outcome of common hybridization, not a common outcome of rare hybridization

S Freitas, AM Westram, T Schwander, M Arakelyan… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Hybridization is a common evolutionary process with multiple possible outcomes. In
vertebrates, interspecific hybridization has repeatedly generated parthenogenetic hybrid …

Caucasian treasure: Genomics sheds light on the evolution of half-extinct Sevan trout, Salmo ischchan, species flock

B Levin, E Simonov, BK Gabrielyan, RL Mayden… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Five ecologically and phenotypically divergent ecomorphs of the genus Salmo are known
from a landlocked alpine lake in the Caucasus, Lake Sevan. It is an example of sympatric …

Disentangling the evolutionary history of peri-Mediterranean cyprinids using host-specific gill monogeneans

M Benovics, J Vukić, R Šanda, I Rahmouni… - International Journal for …, 2020 - Elsevier
The diversification of Mediterranean fish appears to be far more complex than could be
explained by a single dispersion model. Cyprinids represent one of the most species-rich …

Fish diversity in freshwater and brackish water ecosystems of Russia and adjacent waters

YV DYLDIN, L HANEL, R FRICKE… - Publications of the …, 2020 - repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp
In the present paper, the history of fish faunistic and taxonomic knowledge is analyzed, and
the freshwater and brackish water fish diversity in the territory of the Russian Federation and …

The impact of Miocene orogeny for the diversification of Caucasian Epeorus (Caucasiron) mayflies (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae)

Ľ Hrivniak, P Sroka, J Bojková, RJ Godunko… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2020 - Elsevier
A common hypothesis for the high biodiversity of mountains is the diversification driven by
orogeny creating conditions for rapid in situ speciation of resident lineages. The Caucasus is …

Cryptic refugee on the northern slope of the Greater Caucasian Ridge: Discovery of Niphargus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Niphargidae) in the North Ossetia–Alania …

I Marin, D Palatov - Zoologischer Anzeiger, 2021 - Elsevier
An endemic subterranean species of the genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 (Crustacea:
Amphipoda: Niphargidae) belonging to the cave-dwelling “carpathicus” species group is …

[HTML][HTML] Towards retrieving the Promethean treasure: a first molecular assessment of the freshwater fish diversity of Georgia

G Epitashvili, M Geiger, JJ Astrin, F Herder… - Biodiversity Data …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In this study, we provide a first estimation of the molecular diversity of the freshwater fishes of
Georgia. In addition to field collections, we integrated DNA barcode data obtained from …