Fishes of the Mitaraka Mountains (French Guiana)
Author
Sébastien Brosse
Author
Fréderic Melki
Author
Régis Vigouroux
text
Zoosystema
2019
2019-04-01
41
8
131
151
journal article
27313
10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a8
d7ce61a6-6575-4dbf-804b-7399bfb9d1d9
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urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F175E88B-F75F-4BDF-87AC-9BF8C46BF714
Melanocharacidium dispilomma
Buckup, 1993
FIRST RECORD FOR THE MITARAKA. — This study.
FIG. 3. —
Parodon
guyanensis
Gery, 1959. Photograph: F. Melki.
FIG. 4. —
Leporinus granti
Eigenmann, 1912. Photograph: F. Melki.
FIG. 5. —
Characidium
sp. Photograph: F. Melki.
FIG. 6. —
Characidium
zebra
Eigenmann, 1909. Photograph: F. Melki.
OCCURENCES. — S12.
SPECIMENS IN COLLECTION. — 3
MNHN
(MNHN-IC-2018-0425,
MNHN-IC-2018-0426, MNHN-IC-2018-0427); 2
Hydreco
.
DISTRIBUTION IN
FRENCH GUIANA
. — Maroni, Mana and Sinnamary drainages. Only known from a few sites.
ECOLOGY. — This rare species was only observed in a side arm channel of a rapid area of the Alama River. It was found in a bedrock and boulders habitat with turbulent water. Captured using rotenone.
SPECIES CODE. — MDIS.