Characidium gomesi Travassos 1956

Characidium gomesi Travassos 1956: 3, fig. 1 [original description]— Hoffmann et al. 2015: 4, fig. A2.F.

Elongated body; terminal mouth; premaxilla with 6 or 7, dentary with 8–10 and maxilla with no teeth. Isthmus without scales. Lateral line with 34 or 35 pored scales; transversal series above lateral line with 4 scale rows and below with 2 or 2½ scale rows. Dorsal fin with 11, pectoral fin with 11–13, pelvic fin and anal fin with 8 or 9, and caudal fin with 18, total rays. Ground color brown; 3 dark brown longitudinal stripes on dorsal region of body; dark brown stripe from tip of snout to orbit; dark brown longitudinal stripe on flank, from humeral spot caudal peduncle; dark brown transversal bars on flank, conspicuous on caudal peduncle; dark brown spot at base of median caudal-fin rays. Hyaline fins; dorsal fin with 2 dark brown oblique stripes; adipose fin with distal portion darkened; posterior half of pectoral, pelvic and anal-fin rays darkened; caudal fin with 2 dark-brown transversal bars.