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Issue: Vol. 4422 No. 1: 22 May 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-05-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.1.8
Page range: 132–140
Abstract views: 125
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A new species of Eigenmannia Jordan & Evermann (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae) from Río Ventuari, Venezuela

Programa de Capacitação Institucional, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coordenação de Zoologia. Avenida Magalhães Barata, 376, 66040-170, Belém, PA, Brazil.
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 42494, 04218-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Division of Fishes, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, MRC-159, National Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 37012, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, USA.
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Avenida Magalhães Barata, 376, 66040-170, Belém, PA, Brazil.
Pisces Eigenmanniinae Neotropical fishes taxonomy oral morphology

Abstract

A new species of Eigenmannia is described from the Río Ventuari, Río Orinoco basin, Venezuela. It is distinguished from congeners by the presence of a bony dorsolateral flange on the dentary, the presence of teeth attached along a bony dorsolateral flange, and by the first premaxillary teeth attached to the anteroventral margin of the premaxilla. It is further distinguished from all remain congeners by a combination of characters, including a subterminal mouth, 99–107 scales along the lateral line until the end of the anal fin, and ii, 16–17 pectoral-fin rays.

 

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