A new Amazonian species of Brachychalcinus (Characiformes: Characidae) from the Trombetas River basin, Brazil

Autor: James R. Garcia-Ayala, Ricardo C. Benine
Přispěvatelé: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Zdroj: Web of Science
Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
instacron:UNESP
ISSN: 1095-8649
0022-1112
Popis: Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-10T19:55:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-04-01 Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) A new species of Brachychalcinus is described from the Rio Trombetas basin, Brazil. It differs from congeners by possessing a conspicuous rounded second humeral spot. Additionally, our new species differs from Brachychalcinus nummus, B. orbicularis and B. reisi by having a higher number of branched dorsal-fin rays, and from Brachychalcinus parnaibae by having a lower head depth. Univ Estadual Paulista, Dept Morfol, Lab Biol & Genet Peixes, R Prof Dr Antonio CW Zanin S-N, BR-18618689 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista, Lab Ictiol, Setor Zool, Campus Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista, Dept Morfol, Lab Biol & Genet Peixes, R Prof Dr Antonio CW Zanin S-N, BR-18618689 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista, Lab Ictiol, Setor Zool, Campus Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Databáze: OpenAIRE