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A new species of Hyphessobrycon Durbin (Characiformes: Characidae) from the western Amazon basin in Colombia and Peru |
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| Authors: | Carlos Arturo García-Alzate Flavio Lima Donald Charles Taphorn Jose Ivan Mojica Alexander Urbano-Bonilla Tulio Franco Teixeira |
| Affiliation: | 1. Universidad del Atlántico, Programa de Biología, Ciudadela Universitaria, Barranquilla, Colombia;2. Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas “Adão José Cardoso”, Campinas, Brazil;3. Research Associate, Ichthyology, Royal Ontario Museum, Belleville, Illinois, USA;4. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Bogotá, Colombia;5. Departamento de Biología, Laboratorio de Ictiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia;6. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Museu de Ciências Naturais da PUC Minas, Av. Dom José Gaspar, 290, 30535-901, Coração Eucarístico, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Abstract: | Hyphessobrycon chiribiquete n. sp. is described from the Río Caquetá drainage in Colombia and the Río Ucayali drainage in Peru, western Amazon. The new species is diagnosed from its congeners by having the following combination of characters: a conspicuous narrow midlateral stripe, starting on the sides of the body behind the opercle near the lateral line; lateral stripe overlapped anteriorly with a vertically elongated humeral blotch; inner premaxillary teeth pentacuspid; margin of anal fin falcate in mature males. |
| Keywords: | Hyphessobrycon agulha neotropical diversity Río Caquetá drainage Río Ucayali drainage Serrania de Chiribiquete |