Caenotropus schizodon, a new chilodontid fish from the Rio Tapajos drainage, Brazil (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Chilodontidae).
Author
Alexandre Scharcansky
Author
Carlos Alberto Santos de Lucena
text
Zootaxa
2007
1557
59
66
http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2C27E612-8460-4171-8E8C-F22DAF7F1228
journal article
z01557p059
2C27E612-8460-4171-8E8C-F22DAF7F1228
[[
Caenotropus Guenther
]]
Caenotropus
is a small genus with three valid species:
C. labyrinthicus Kner
widely distributed in the Rio Amazonas and
Rio
Orinoco basins, the upper Rio Essequibo, the Saramaca and Suriname Rivers, and the Rio
Parnaiba
, northeastern Brazil;
C. maculosus Eigenmann
from the Guianas, and
C. mestomorgmatos Vari, Castro, and Raredon
from the middle Rio Negro, Brazil and Venezuela, and upper Rio Orinoco in southern Venezuela (Vari and Raredon, 2003).