Annotated catalogue of the type specimens of salmon, cod and cottoid fishes described by Dmitry Taliev

V.V. Spodareva, Z.V. Zhidkov and V.G. Sideleva

Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS, 2023, 327(2): 234–249 · https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2023.327.2.234

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Abstract

The article provides a brief biography of the ichthyologist Dmitry Nikolayevich Taliev (1908–1952), as well as information and illustrations for 24 taxa described by him from the White Sea (Gadidae – one subspecies), the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk (Salmonidae – one subspecies), Lake Baikal (Cottidae – 2 species and 4 subspecies; Abyssocottidae – 6 species and 8 subspecies), and Lake Baunt (Cottidae – 1 subspecies; Abyssocottidae – 1 species). For 19 taxa, photographs and radiographs of type specimens kept in the collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia) are presented for the first time. Type specimens of three species and two subspecies from the families Cottidae and Abyssocottidae found in the collection are examined and catalogued. It was revealed that Cottus kessleri bauntovi Taliev, 1946 and Limnocottus kozovi Taliev, 1946 are morphologically similar to Cottus sibiricus, a species widely distributed in Siberia, including Lake Baunt. According to modern fish taxonomy, Taliev’s 12 taxa are valid. Findings of type specimens in the historical collection are extremely important for the scientific community.

Key words

cottoid fishes, D.N. Taliev, historical collections, type specimens, Zoological Institute RAS

Submitted March 30, 2023 · Accepted April 30, 2023 · Published June 25, 2023

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