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Description of a new species of Bryconamericus (Teleostei, Characidae) from the basin of the Golfo de Paria, northeastern Venezuela

2002; Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia e Instituto Nacional de Investigación de las Ciencias Naturales; Volume: 4; Linguagem: Inglês

10.22179/revmacn.4.14

ISSN

1853-0400

Autores

César Román-Valencia,

Tópico(s)

Fish Biology and Ecology Studies

Resumo

The new fish species Bryconamericus lassorum is described from the basin of the Golfo de Paria, northoastern Venezuela, It can be dislinguished from other species of Bryconamericus by the possession of a foramen on the maxilla, located adjacent to the anterior toolh-hearing borie, by the presence of a large, elongate apophysis on the orhitosphenoid, and by the insertion of the proximal and riidial coinponeiits of the dorsal fin pterygiophores between the neural spines of the 13-19th vertcbrao

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