Salmo ardahanensis Turan & Kottelat & Kaya 2022, new species

Salmo ardahanensis, new species (Fig. 4) Holotype. FFR 3239, 222 mm SL; Turkey: Ardahan Prov.: Stream Toros (41°06’N 42°26’E), Kura River drainage; D. Turan & S. Engin, 02 September 2006. Paratypes. FFR 1130, 12, 135–253 mm SL; CMK 19738, 2, 188–194 mm SL; same data as holotype. — FFR 3164, 10, 154–217 mm SL; Turkey: Ardahan Prov.: Stream Toros (41°06’N 42°26’E), Kura River drainage; D. Turan, E. Bayçelebi & C. Kaya, 21 September 2014.— FFR 3107, 4, 156–192; FFR 3167, 2, 155–182; Turkey: Ardahan Prov.: Stream Alabalık (41°03’N 42°22’E), Kura River drainage; D. Turan & S. Engin, 14 August 2008.— FFR 3110, 4, 67–118 mm SL; Turkey: Ardahan Prov.: Stream Karaman at Aşıkzülal (41°25’N 42°39’E), Kura River drainage; D. Turan & S. Engin, 2 September 2006.— FFR 3136, 16, 99–185 mm SL; Turkey: Ardahan Prov.: Stream Kınavur at Çataldere (41°11’N 42°36’E), Kura River drainage; D. Turan & C. Kaya, 23 September 2010. Diagnosis. Salmo ardahanensis is distinguished from all the species of Salmo in adjacent waters in having a combination of the following characters: general body color brownish on back and upper part of flank, yellowish on lower part of flank and belly in life; a single faintly marked black spots behind eye (larger than pupil), and 1–5 spots on preopercle and opercle (smaller than pupil); black spots on body few to numerous (12–97 [fewer than 50 in only 12 specimens, more than 67 in only 5 specimens]), roundish, medium size (approximately equal to pupil), ocellated, surrounded by a large white ring, scattered on back, middle and upper part of flank in some specimens, sometime restricted to back and upper part of flank; in females, black spots few (21–46), restricted to back and upper part of flank; number of black spots not or slightly increasing with increasing size in most males; red spots few (19–38), ocellated, surrounded by a large white ring, scattered on middle and half of lower and upper flank in both sexes; body markedly compressed laterally in males; adipose-fin large, almost ...