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Description of a new species of Schizodon (Characiformes: Anostomidae) from the upper rio Tapajós basin, Brazil

2023; Q15088586; Volume: 5330; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.11646/zootaxa.5330.1.8

ISSN

1175-5334

Autores

Heraldo A. Britski, Júlio César Garavello, Jorge L. Ramírez,

Tópico(s)

Fish Ecology and Management Studies

Resumo

A new species of Schizodon with five dark transverse blotches on the body and a large black blotch at the end of the caudal peduncle is described from the rio Arinos, upper rio Tapajós basin, in the Brazilian Amazon. The new species shares a color pattern composed by transverse brown bars and a caudal fin blotch with Schizodon fasciatus and S. trivittatus but possess twelve rows of scales around the caudal peduncle, a unique character among the species of genus.

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