Revision of the loach genus Claea Kottelat, 2010 (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) in China, with a description of a new species from the Chang-Jiang basin Author Zhang, Chu-Yi Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei Province, P. R. China & Shanghai Universities Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Taxonomy and Evolution, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, P. R. China Author Luo, Pan Hubei Provincial Academy of Eco-environmental Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei Province, P. R. China Author Huang, Feng Hubei Provincial Academy of Eco-environmental Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei Province, P. R. China Author Zhang, E. Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei Province, P. R. China text Zootaxa 2024 2024-12-04 5543 3 404 422 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5543.3.6 journal article 306480 10.11646/zootaxa.5543.3.6 9269efba-ea58-4dc7-83cc-79e2afa40771 1175-5326 14386522 7CACA96F-36D9-4715-8988-1ED68AD3D0A8

TABLE 3. Loadings of morphometric measurements on the first three principal components (PCs). Variables in bold indicate higher loading values

Variable	PC1	PC2	PC3
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Standard length	0.203	-0.024	0.021
Lateral head length	0.179	-0.009	0.056
Body depth	0.220	-0.279	-0.327
Predorsal length	0.190	-0.008	0.004
Prepelvic length	0.190	-0.012	0.049
Preanal length	0.197	-0.010	0.012
Dorsal-fin length	0.185	0.146	-0.085
Pectoral-fin length	0.165	0.037	0.040
Pelvic-fin length	0.181	0.111	-0.136
Anal-fin length	0.193	0.150	-0.140
Caudal-fin length	0.169	0.158	-0.024
Caudal-peduncle length	0.244	-0.089	-0.158
Caudal-peduncle depth	0.262	-0.291	-0.160
Pelvic-anal distance	0.207	-0.010	-0.110
Vent-anal distance	0.203	0.021	-0.040
Head width	0.204	-0.249	0.156
Head depth	0.185	-0.310	-0.008
Snout length	0.209	-0.089	0.010
Postorbital head length	0.177	0.107	0.119
Eye diameter	0.082	0.127	-0.033
Interorbital width	0.165	-0.422	0.556
Inner rostral-barbel length	0.234	0.058	0.352
Outer rostral-barbel length	0.226	0.483	0.298
Maxillary-barbel length	0.230	0.356	0.125
Cumulative variance (%)	81.76	8.74	3.29