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Moenkhausia bonita: A New Small Characin Fish from the Rio Paraguay Basin, Southwestern Brazil (Characiformes: Characidae)

2004; American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; Volume: 2004; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1643/ci-03-008r1

1938-5110

Ricardo C. Benine, Ricardo Macedo Corrêa e Castro, José Sabino,

Fish Ecology and Management Studies

Moenkhausia bonita, new species, is described from the Rio Baía Bonita, a tributary of the Rio Miranda, Rio Paraguay basin, Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, southwestern Brazil. The new species is distinguished from all congeners by the combination of the presence in alcohol-preserved specimens of a black midlateral stripe, a black posterior margin on each caudal fin lobe, the presence of a black lozenge-shaped blotch on the caudal peduncle that extends to the posterior limit of the median caudal fin rays, and the presence of seven gill rakers on the upper limb and 12 gill rakers on the lower limb of the first gill arch. Comments are included on the phylogenetic placement, ecology, and behavior of the species.