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The new species, named Chrysichthys praecox by ichthyologists Michael Hardman and Melanie Stiassny in the latest issue of Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, is a small, sexually dimorphic species distinguished from congeners by differences in the morphologies of the palatal toothplates, supraocipital process, jaws and postcleithral process, barbel length, colour and number of gill rakers on the first gill arch.
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