Fishes from the Tirimbina Biological Reserve, La Virgen de Sarapiquí, Heredia, Costa Rica
Author
Angulo, Arturo
Author
Naranjo-Elizondo, Beatriz
Author
Rojas, Emmanuel
Author
Ley-López, Juan Manuel
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2017-10-27
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http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/13.5.683
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10.15560/13.5.683
1809-127X
(14)
Priapichthys annectens
(
Regan 1907: 259
)
; Live-
bearer (En), Olomina (Sp)
Figure 4C
Body elongate and moderately deep; teeth conical and well fixed in the jaws; jaw bones firmly united; lateral line reduced to a series of individual pits along side of body; fins without spines; a single dorsal fin; males with anal fin modified into a long gonopodium extending be- yond the dorsal fin insertion; caudal fin rounded; general coloration grayish yellow, darker dorsally, usually brown- ish yellow, and paler, usually yellowish white or almost white with bluish or purplish highlights, ventrally, and with 6–12, usually 6–8 dark bars on the sides; the scales are conspicuously bordered with black, giving a crosshatch pattern to the body (this pattern is more intensive along the mid-line of the flanks and sometimes resembles a series of X’s along the body); fins usually transparent, yellowish or orange in some specimens, with membranes of the dorsal fin base with elongate black blotches and the distal portion usually orange; maximum body length ca
60 mm
SL.