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
Author
Graça, Weferson Júnio da
Author
Pavanelli, Carla Simone
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Neotropical Ichthyology
2018
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10.1590/1982-0224-20170094
f68fe85c-2a4c-4625-b684-74f61398d6c2
1982-0224
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Hypophthalmus oremaculatus
Nani, Fuster, 1947
Fig. 28
Body elongate; greatest body depth contained 4.3 to 4.4, head depth 7.5 to 7.9, caudal-peduncle depth 11.8 to 12.0 times in SL; head length 4.1 to 4.3, anal-fin base length 2.0 to 2.2, adipose-fin base length 31.0 to 34.2, and maxillarybarbel length
3.6 to 4.2 in
SL; snout length 2.0 to 2.2, horizontal orbital diameter 7.7 to 8.6, and least interorbital width
2.2 to 2.3 in
HL. Mouth terminal; toothless. Dorsal fin with 7, pectoral fin with 16-18, pelvic fin with 7 and anal fin with 55-62 rays. Ground color greyish dorsally, whitish ventrally. Whitish fins with dark-grey margins.
Maximum standard length.
440.0 mm.
Distribution.
Río
Paraná
basin.
Remarks.
Hypophthalmus oremaculatus
was identified as
H. edentatus
by
Graça, Pavanelli (2007)
.
Littmann
et al.
(2015)
redescribed
H. oremaculatus
, provided additional information on
H. edentatus
and proposed the new identification for the specimens from the río
Paraná
basin. Additionally, the same authors found an exceptional specimen in a tributary of the rio
Paraná
(NUP 1730) that matches the description of a new species (identified as
Hypophthalmus
cf. n. sp. 1, Littmann, Lundberg, in preparation) by having 61 total vertebrae, seven post-Weberian vertebrae, mental barbels not reaching pectoral fins, and dorsal-fin origin posterior to anal-fin origin (
vs.
55 to 59 total vertebrae, 3 to 6 post-Weberian vertebrae, long mental barbels, extending to pectoral-fin origin or beyond, and dorsalfin origin approximately on vertical through anal-fin origin, in
H. oremaculatus
). However, the new species is from the rio Orinoco and Amazon basins, and, at this moment,
Littmann
et al.
(2015)
only speculated that this specimen is possible a phenotypic outlier of
H. oremaculatus
, or a geographic outlier of
Hypophthalmus
n. sp. 1. Nevertheless,
H. oremaculatus
is a non-native species from the upper rio
Paraná
, and its occurrence can be associated with the filling of the Itaipu Reservoir and the consequent inundation of the Sete Quedas Falls.