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Issue: Vol. 4375 No. 3: 25 Jan. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-01-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4375.3.5
Page range: 371–391
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Redescription of Vieja hartwegi (Taylor & Miller 1980) (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Grijalva River basin, Mexico and Guatemala, with description of a rheophilic morph

Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Tercer circuito s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Copilco, Coyoacán. A.P. 70–153, C.P. 04510, Mexico City, Mexico. Museo de Zoología, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas. Libramiento Norte Poniente No. 1150, Colonia Lajas Maciel, C.P. 29039. Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico.
Colección Nacional de Crustáceos, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado postal 70–153, 04510 Mexico City, Mexico.
Museo de Zoología, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas. Libramiento Norte Poniente No. 1150, Colonia Lajas Maciel, C.P. 29039. Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico.
Museo de Zoología, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas. Libramiento Norte Poniente No. 1150, Colonia Lajas Maciel, C.P. 29039. Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico.
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad Chetumal, Av. Centenario km 5.5, A.P. 424, C.P. 77014, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad San Cristóbal, Carretera Panamericana y Periférico Sur s/n, Barrio María Auxiliadora, C.P. 29290, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
The Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605 USA
Taxonomy morphological variation Middle America Heroini polymorphism Pisces

Abstract

Vieja hartwegi was described by Taylor and Miller in 1980 based on 45 juvenile and sub-adult specimens, but this species shows an enormous variation in coloration patterns during ontogenic development and between individuals. Additionally, morphological data have demonstrated the existence of two forms in V. hartwegi: the typical morph of a moderately deep to slightly elongated body shape with midlateral band, and a rheophilic morph with an elongated to slightly deep body shape and lack of midlateral band. Herein we redescribe V. hartwegi adding adults and individuals from broad geographic ranges, as well as a rheophilic morph recently discovered in the upper reaches of the Grijalva River basin in Mexico. The set of characters include coloration, meristic, morphometric and osteological features. Vieja hartwegi is a polymorphic species whose forms may be segregating because of habitat preferences and food habits.

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