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Gymnotus carapo Linnaeus 1758
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Gymnotus carapo Linnaeus, 1758
FIRST RECORD FOR THE MITARAKA. — This study.
OCCURENCES. — S4, S5, S9, S10, S11, S12, S13, S14.
SPECIMENS IN COLLECTION. — 10 MNHN (MNHN-IC-2018-0503, MNHN-IC-2018-0504, MNHN-IC-2018-0505, MNHN- IC-2018 -0506, MNHN-IC-2018-0507, MNHN-IC-2018-0508, MNHN-IC-2018-0509, MNHN-IC-2018-0510, MNHN- IC-2018 -0511, MNHN-IC-2018-0512); 10 Hydreco.
DISTRIBUTION IN FRENCH GUIANA. — Widespread.
ECOLOGY. — Observed in both Alama mainstream and tributaries. This nocturnal species hides during the day in submersed tree roots and undercut banks. Captured using rotenone.
SPECIES CODE. — GCAR.
Notes
Published as part of Sébastien Brosse, Fréderic Melki & Régis Vigouroux, 2019, Fishes of the Mitaraka Mountains (French Guiana), pp. 131-151 in Zoosystema 41 (8) on page 146, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/2639414
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Characiformes
- Family
- Gymnotidae
- Genus
- Gymnotus
- Species
- carapo
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gymnotus carapo Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Brosse, Melki & Vigouroux, 2019
References
- FISCH- MULLER S., MOL J. H. & COVAIN R. 2018. - An integrative framework to reevaluate the Neotropical catfish genus Guyanancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with particular emphasis on the Guyanancistrus brevispinis complex. PLoS ONE 13: e 0189789. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0189789