Fishes from the Tirimbina Biological Reserve, La Virgen de Sarapiquí, Heredia, Costa Rica
Author
Angulo, Arturo
Author
Naranjo-Elizondo, Beatriz
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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
journal article
10.15560/13.5.683
1809-127X
(10)
Alfaro cultratus
(
Regan 1908: 458
)
; Knife live-
bearer (En), Olomina (sp)
Figure 3E
Body elongate, moderately deep and deeply compressed; 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 short gonopodium not extending beyond the dorsal fin insertion; ventral margin of the caudal peduncle sharp and compressed, scales forming a sheathed keel; caudal fin rounded; gen- eral coloration yellowish gray or pale yellow (almost transparent in some specimens) with metallic blue/green flashes in the abdomen and a thin dark line running along the entire length of the body; fins transparent or yellow; maximum body length ca
65 mm
SL.