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Issue: Vol. 4318 No. 1: 6 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.1.5
Page range: 123–134
Abstract views: 159
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Two new Hyphessobrycon (Characiformes: Characidae) species from Central Amazon basin, Brazil

Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Vertebrados, Quinta da Boa Vista, 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas “Adão José Cardoso”, Caixa Postal 6109, 13083-683, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
Pisces Hyphessobrycon heterorhabdus species group Terra firme taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species of Hyphessobrycon, H. ericae and H. wosiackii, are described from the Amazon basin, Brazil. Both new species are distinguished from congeners by the coloration, composed by one humeral blotch merging with an anterior dark band restricted to the anterior portion of the body and the presence of a caudal peduncle blotch. Hyphessobrycon ericae is distinguished from H. wosiackii by presenting a humeral spot vertically elongated, with an overall appearance of an arrow, instead of an anteriorly rounded humeral spot.

 

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