Ichthyofauna of the lower course of the Negro river drainage, Patagonia Argentina
Author
Soricetti, Mariano
Author
Morawicki, Santiago
Author
Guardiola Rivas, Fredy José
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Guidi, Catalina
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Quezada, Facundo
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Almirón, Adriana Edith
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Solimano, Patricio José
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2020
2020-07-24
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895
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http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/16.4.895
journal article
10.15560/16.4.895
1809-127X
Galaxias maculatus
(Jenyns, 1842)
Figure 3H
Material examined.
ARGENTINA
•
1 ♂
,
57 mm
;
Site
2;
40°42ʹ48ʺS
,
063°23ʹ08ʺW
;
15 Jan. 2016
;
M. Soricetti
leg.; MPCN-Ict 9
. •
1 ♀
,
51 mm
;
Site
2;
40°42ʹ48ʺS
,
063° 23ʹ08ʺW
;
24 Apr. 2017
;
P. Solimano
leg.; MPCN-Ict 66
.
Identification.
Body elongated. Head short. Teeth almost equal in size, without differentiated canines. Max- illa reaches or slightly surpasses the anterior edge of the eye. The anal-fin origin is at the same level that the dor- sal-fin origin, and when reclined, it does not reach the caudal fin. The pelvic-fin origin is closer to the base of the caudal fin than to the anterior end of the snout. Ol- ive background, with irregular blackish spots, some of which are somewhat semilunar.