Traccatichthys punctulatus sp. nov., a new species of stone loach (Pisces, Nemacheilidae) from Guangxi, southern China Author Qin, Zhi-Xian https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7271-813X Key Laboratory of Ecology of Rare and Endangered Species and Environmental Protection, Guangxi Normal University, Ministry of Education, Guilin, Guangxi 541004, China Author Zhou, Jia-Jun 0000-0003-1038-1540 Guangxi Key Laboratory of Rare and Endangered Animal Ecology, College of Life Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, Guangxi 541004, China & Zhejiang Forest Resource Monitoring Center, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310020, China Author Du, Li-Na 0000-0002-2246-643X Key Laboratory of Ecology of Rare and Endangered Species and Environmental Protection, Guangxi Normal University, Ministry of Education, Guilin, Guangxi 541004, China Author Lin, Feng 0000-0001-7240-9233 Zhejiang Forestry Survey Planning and Design Company Limited, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310020, China & Guangxi Key Laboratory of Aquatic Genetic Breeding and Healthy Aquaculture, Guangxi Academy of Fishery Sciences, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China text Zoosystematics and Evolution 2025 2025-06-02 101 3 1013 1021 journal article 310149 10.3897/zse.101.146077 fe416336-4dce-47b7-8484-bade377a690e 99656EF0-6D97-4D1A-9E76-A36C5B19E834

Table 2. Uncorrected p - distances between five species of Traccatichthys based on the mitochondrial COI gene.

Species	T. pulcher	T. taeniatus	T. tuberculum	T. zispi
T. pulcher
T. taeniatus	0.0158
T. tuberculum	0.0442	0.0410
T. zispi	0.0558	0.0558	0.0416
T. punctulatus sp. nov.	0.0915	0.0915	0.0852	0.1079