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Description of a new species of sand-dwelling catfish of the genus Stenolicmus (Siluriformes; Trichomycteridae)

Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG), Av. Magalhães Barata, 376, CP 399, CEP 66040-170, Belém, PA, Brazil
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, UFPA/MPEG, Av. Magalhães Barata, 376, CP 399, CEP 66040-170, Belém, PA, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Pará/UFPA, Laboratório de Ecologia e Zoologia de Vertebrados – Ictiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Rua Augusto Corrêa, 01 - Guamá. 66075-110 Belém, PA Brazil, CP 479
Fish New catfish Sarcoglanidinae lower Amazon basin

Abstract

Stenolicmus ix, new species, is described from Igarapé Curuá, left tributary of the Rio Amazonas, Pará, Brazil. It can be distinguished from S. sarmientoi by the length of the nasal barbels that reach the base of the first opercular odontodes; length of the maxillary barbels that reach the posterior margin of the opercular odontode plate; seven well-developed opercular odontodes; seven well-developed interopercular odontodes; color pattern of the dorsal region of trunk composed of agglomerated chromatophores forming circular patches twice the diameter of the eye; proportionally large eyes, 11.8% HL; caudal peduncle tall, 11.6% SL, without dark bar at base of the caudal fin; length of the head proportionately larger, 17.9% SL; unbranched rays of caudal fin reaching distal margin of fin. Comparisons with other Sarcoglanidinae and Trichomycteridae are presented. Some comments on the systematics and phylogenetic relationships of the group are made.

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