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Issue: Vol. 4247 No. 2: 27 Mar. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-03-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.2.2
Page range: 114–120
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Cyphocharax boiadeiro, a new species from the upper rio Araguaia, Amazon basin, Brazil (Characiformes: Curimatidae)

Departamento de Morfologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, R. Prof. Dr. Antonio C. W. Zanin, s/n, Rubião Jr, 18618-689, Botucatu SP, Brazil. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.
Pisces Biodiversity morphology Neotropical fishes South America taxonomy

Abstract

Cyphocharax boiadeiro, new species, is described from the upper rio Araguaia, a tributary of the Amazon basin in central Brazil. The new species is readily distinguished from its congeners by the presence of a distinct longitudinal dark stripe from supracleithrum to the caudal peduncle and by a combination of morphometric, meristic, and pigmentation features. Morphological characters supporting putative subunits of Cyphocharax are also discussed.

 

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