Title
A new species of Poptella (Characiformes: Characidae: Stethaprioninae) from the Rio Juma, Rio Madeira basin, Brazil
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Benine R.C.
Universidade Estadual Paulista
Publisher(s)
Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia
Abstract
A new species of Poptella is described from the Rio Juma, a tributary of the lower Rio Aripuanã, Rio Madeira basin, Amazonas, Brazil. The new species is distinguished from all congeners, except P. brevispina, by having a lower number of scale rows between the lateral line and dorsal-fin origin (7 vs. 8-10). The new species can be readily distinguished from P. brevispina by the lower number of branched dorsal-fin rays (9 vs. 10). This is the first description of a new species of Poptella since the revisionary study of the Stethaprioninae, published 30 years ago.
Volume
17
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85067945453
Source
Neotropical Ichthyology
ISSN of the container
16796225
Sponsor(s)
We thank Lúcia R. Py-Daniel (INPA), Aléssio Datovo (MZUSP), Claudio Oliveira (LBP) and Erling Holm (ROM) for curatorial assistance. We are grateful to Flávio A. Bockmann and André Esguícero (LIRP) for assistance with radiographs using the Faxitron LX60 DC12 (equipment acquired with support from FAPESP 09/54931-0). Willian M. Ohara provided the photo of the specimen in life and Laís Reia assisted with Fig. 5. This work received support from the CNPq Projects: “Revisão taxonômica da subfamília Stethaprioninae (Teleostei: Characiformes, Characidae)” (Proc. 140606/2015-7) and “Filogenia molecular dos peixes da subfamília Stethaprioninae (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae) usando elementos ultraconservados do genoma” (Proc. 153924/2018-7). RCB is financially supported by CNPq (Proc. 308784/2016-2).
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