Taxonomy of the plesiolebiasine killifish genera Pituna, Plesiolebias and Maratecoara (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), with descriptions of nine new species
Author
Costa, Wilson J. E. M.
text
Zootaxa
2007
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41
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.175565
e56e5bd8-61c0-467b-9941-fff5a5bb81ed
1175-5326
175565
Pituna
Costa
Pituna
Costa, 1989a
: 225
(
type
species:
Pituna poranga
Costa
, by original designation).
Diagnosis.
Distinguished from all other genera of the Plesiolebiasini in possessing dark brown flanks, with oblique rows of golden spots in males (
vs.
never a similar color pattern).
Pituna
may also be distinguished by the following combination of characters: body squamation extending onto anterior 40–50 % of caudal fin in males (
vs.
25–30 %), pectoral-fin rays 14–15 (
vs.
11–13), caudal fin dark brown in males (
vs.
caudal fin never darkly colored in males), humeral spot metallic blue in males (
vs.
humeral spot absent), dorsal-fin rays 8–11 (
vs.
11–13), anal-fin rays 13–16 (
vs.
17–20), pelvic-fin rays 7 (
vs.
8–9), dorsal and anal fins pointed in males (
vs.
rounded); distal portion of dorsal fin red in males (
vs.
not distinctively colored).
Distribution
. Xingu, Araguaia, Tocantins, Paranaiba, and Paraná river basins,
Brazil
(
Fig. 1
).