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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (5): 142-147.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2022-0084

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Morphological Differences Between Male and Female Populations of Gymnocypris chilianensis

ZHAO Zhongmeng(), HUANG Zhipeng, ZHAO Han, ZHANG Lu, DUAN Yuanliang, MU Chengyan, ZHOU Jian, LI Qiang()   

  1. Fisheries Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu 611730
  • Received:2022-02-16 Revised:2022-09-26 Online:2023-02-15 Published:2023-02-06

Abstract:

To identify the sex of Gymnocypris chilianensis quickly and exactly, this paper studied morphological information of 100 Gymnocypris chilianensis samples collected from Sulehe River in Gansu Province and established a discrimination model of male and female individuals. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), principal component analysis and R-cluster analysis were adopted. ANOVA revealed that there were significant differences in eight standardized characteristics (body height, body thickness, dorsal kiss distance, dorsal fin base length, head thickness, posterior head length, eye diameter, mouth fissure width) and body length and weight between male and female populations (P<0.05). Based on the analysis of the morphological index system by principal component analysis and R-cluster analysis, G. chilianensis was classified by body size. On the basis of the analysis, 15 characteristics were screened and the discriminate equations were built for classification of the 100 samples with an accuracy rate of 92%. Therefore, it is concluded that the female G. chilianensis collected from Sulehe River are superior to males in body height and body thickness, but have smaller interorbital diameter, oral fissure length and dorsal fin length. The findings can be used in sex identification of G. chilianensis and provide basic information for its reproduction.

Key words: Gymnocypris chilianensis, sex, morphological differences, discriminant analysis