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Characidium lauroi Travassos 1949

Description

Characidium lauroi Travassos, 1949

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Geographic distribution: Upper reaches of Paraíba do Sul tributaries.

Diagnosis: Characidium lauroi differs from C. vidali by the presence of small rounded dark marks below the lateral stripe, which are separated from the dorsal-lateral bars, and pigmentation bars on the caudal fin are usually absent or inconspicuous (Melo 2001b, Buckup et al. 2014).

Notes

Published as part of de Brito, Victor & Buckup, Paulo Andreas, 2019, The fish fauna of the upper Piraí drainage, a transposed mountain river system in southeastern, Brazil, pp. 235-247 in Check List 15 (1) on page 237, DOI: 10.15560/15.1.235

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Travassos
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Characiformes
Family
Crenuchidae
Genus
Characidium
Species
lauroi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Characidium lauroi Travassos, 1949 sec. Brito & Buckup, 2019

References

  • Travassos H (1949) Notas ictiologicas. I. Characidium lauroi n. sp. (Actinopterygii, Ostareophysi). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 9 (1): 87 - 92.
  • Melo MRS (2001 b) Sistematica, filogenetica e biogeografia do grupo Characidium lauroi Travassos, 1949 (Characiformes, Crenuchidae). Master's dissertation, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 95 pp.
  • Buckup PA, Britto MR, Souza-Lima R., Pascoli JC, Villa-Verde L, Ferraro GA, Salgado FLK, Gomes JR (2014) Guia de Identificacao das Especies de Peixes da Bacia do Rio das Pedras Municipio de Rio Claro, RJ. The Nature Conservancy, Rio de Janeiro, 144 pp.