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Provedor de dados: | 83
País: | Brazil
Título: | A new species of whiptail armored catfish, genus Pseudohemiodon (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Orinoco River basin, Llanos region of Colombia and Venezuela
Autores: | Rojas-Molina,Yecid Andrey; Provenzano-Rizzi,Francisco; Ramírez-Gil,Hernando.
Data: | 2019-01-01
Ano: | 2019
Palavras-chave: | Diversity; Freshwater fishes; South America; Systematic; Taxonomy.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT A new species of whiptail armored catfish belonging to the genus Pseudohemiodon is described. The new species inhabits aquatic systems of the Orinoco River basin, mostly in the Llanos region of Colombia and Venezuela. Previously, it had identified as P. laticeps erroneously. The genus Pseudohemiodon includes seven known species inhabit Amazon and Paraná-Paraguay-Uruguay rivers basins. The new species is distinguished from congeners by the combination of the following characters: abdomen totally covered; area in front of gill opening without plates, ventrally; dorsal body color pattern without transversal dark bands, mostly in the caudal peduncle; head with straight sides; head and caudal peduncle narrower.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252019000200213
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia
Relação: | 10.1590/1982-0224-20180160
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Neotropical Ichthyology  v.17 n.2 2019
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess