@article {8396,
	title = {A third European species of grayling (Actinopterygii, Salmonidae), endemic to the Loire River basin (France), Thymallus ligericus n. sp.},
	journal = {Cybium},
	volume = {43},
	year = {2019},
	pages = {233-238},
	abstract = {Loire grayling was already known to belong to a distinct lineage, compared to other European population, according to molecular data (enzymatic polymorphism, mtDNA sequencing and microsatellites). In this paper, we consider this lineage as a new species, Thymallus ligericus n. sp., which is endemic to the Loire drainage (France). Compared with the other species, T. ligericus n. sp. is characterized by a more elongated body, the presence of a pointed snout and a strait or convex snout profile, a more inferior mouth with a transversal aperture and a fleshier upper lip, usually more than 50 to several hundreds black dots on the flanks, a shorter head (20.0-23.7\% SL), smaller occipital and orbital depths of the head (54.8-71.7\% HL and 43.5-53.4\% HL, respectively) and a shorter horizontal eye diameter (22.6-26.3\% HL).},
	author = {Persat, Henri and Weiss, Steven J. and Froufe, Elsa and Secci-Petretto, Giulia and Denys, Ga{\"e}l}
}
