Table 4. Main diagnostic characters among G. lii and closely-related eight-barbel gudgeons. Number of specimens examined for vertebrae are given in parentheses. G. lii ΛG. brevirostris ΛG. homalopteroidea ○G. jiangxiensis ΛG. pappenheimi Λ1. Scaleless region of the abdomen adjacent to the ventral mid-lineTo anusTo anusTo anal-fin originTo anusTo anus2. Snout length/post-orbital head length> 1 1> 13. Eye diameter/interorbital width 1 1 1 1 17. Extension of third pair of mental barbelTo base of pectoral finTo middle of operculaTo base of pectoral finTo front margin of pre-operculaTo base of pectoral fin8. Pectoral-fin length/distance between pectoral- and pelvic-fin insertions 19. Second branched pectoral-fin rayNot elongatedElongatedNot elongatedNot elongatedElongated10. Vertebral counts4+31-32 (3)4+34 (2)4+36-374+33-34 (6)4+34-35 (5)11. Lateral-line pored scales37-38 (14)38-39 (2)41-4338-39 (6)37-39 (14) ○ From He and Chen (1998); Λ from this study.

Published as part of Chen, Xiao, Wang, Man, Cao, Liang & Zhang, E, 2022, Gobiobotia lii, a new species of gudgeon (Teleostei, Gobionidae) from the middle Chang-Jiang Basin, central China, with notes on the validity of G. nicholsi Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1966, pp. 93 in Zoosystematics and Evolution 98 (1) on page 93, DOI: 10.3897/zse.98.80547