Peixes da planície de inundação do alto rio Paraná e áreas adjacentes: revised, annotated and updated
Author
Ota, Renata Rúbia
Author
Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho
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Graça, Weferson Júnio da
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Pavanelli, Carla Simone
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Neotropical Ichthyology
2018
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10.1590/1982-0224-20170094
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1982-0224
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Corydoras
sp.
Fig. 19
Body deep and elliptical; greatest depth contained 3.0 and caudal peduncle depth 6.8 times in SL; head length 3.1, predorsal distance 6.5 and maxillary-barbel length
6.1 in
SL; snout length 1.9, horizontal orbital diameter 3.8 and least interorbital width 3.0 in HL. Mouth inferior. Lateral line with 4 pores on upper series of plates. Dorsolateral series with 24 plates and ventrolateral series with 21 plates. Dorsal fin with II,8, pectoral with I,8, pelvic and anal fins with 6 rays. Ground color yellow to pale brown; six dark-brown spots on mid-line of flank; ventrolateral plates dark-grey posteriorly to pelvic fin; middle portion of caudal-fin base with dark-brown spot.
Maximum standard length.
31.8 mm
.
Distribution.
Only known from the Córrego Santa Maria, tributary of the rio Iguatemi, right bank of the upper rio
Paraná
.
Remarks.
Only two specimens of
Corydoras
sp. were captured in a tributary of the rio Iguatemi, in 2008 by V. F. B. Silva and collaborators. According to L. F. C. Tencatt (oral communication, 2011) this species is apparently new to science.