Description of a new species of Schizodon (Characiformes: Anostomidae) from the upper rio Tapajós basin, Brazil

Britski H.A.; Garavello J.C.; Ramirez J.L. · Zootaxa (2023) · DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.1.8

Resumen

A new species of Schizodon with five dark transverse blotches on the body and a large black blotch at the end of the caudal peduncle is described from the rio Arinos, upper rio Tapajós basin, in the Brazilian Amazon. The new species shares a color pattern composed by transverse brown bars and a caudal fin blotch with Schizodon fasciatus and S. trivittatus but possess twelve rows of scales around the caudal peduncle, a unique character among the species of genus. Copyright

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos