• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.189-194
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• 1991

A new speices of cyprinid fish, Acheilognathus somjinensis is described based on the specimens collected in the Somjin River, Sinpyong-myon, Imsil -gun , Chollabuk-do province of Korea. In general morphology it is similar to A. koreensis. however, the new speices differs from the latter in having longer ovipositor of female in spawing season and showing pear-shaped eggs. In hybridization experiments, it was found that A.somjinensis is repoductively isolated from A.koreensis.