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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journal article
10.1590/1982-0224-20170094
f68fe85c-2a4c-4625-b684-74f61398d6c2
1982-0224
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Hyphessobrycon moniliger
Moreira, Lima, Costa, 2002
Fig. 8
Body moderately deep; greatest depth contained 2.6 to 3.2 and caudal peduncle depth 8.2 to 10.9 times in SL; head length 3.0 to 3.6, predorsal distance 1.7 to 2.0 and caudal peduncle length
6.1 to 10.3 in
SL; snout length 3.4 to 4.9, horizontal orbital diameter 2.1 to 2.8 and least interorbital width 3.0 to
3.7 in
HL. Mouth terminal; inner row of premaxilla with 5, rarely 6 teeth, outer row with 2-5, dentary with up to 12 and maxilla with 3 teeth. Lateral line incomplete, with 6-8 pored scales; longitudinal series with 27-35; transverse series above lateral line with 7 or 8 scale rows and below with 4-5 scale rows. Dorsal fin with 11 rays, pectoral fin with 11-14 rays, pelvic fin with 8 rays, anal fin with 26-30 rays and caudal fin with 19 rays (
Moreira
et al.
, 2002
). Ground color pale brown; one humeral spot (
Teixeira
et al.
, 2015
); dark-brown longitudinal stripe on flank, continuous with caudal peduncle blotch; dark-brown caudal peduncle blotch triangle-shaped in females and juveniles, rectangular in males; hyaline fins.
Maximum standard length.
27.0 mm.
Biological data.
Anal fin of mature males with an anterior lobe and convex outline and proximal portion of the lobed rays with a projection, anterodorsally oriented; females with concave outline (
Moreira
et al
., 2002
).
Distribution.
Middle rio Araguaia, rio
Tocantins
, rio Tapajós and upper rio
Paraná
basins.
Remarks.
Hyphessobrycon moniliger
has been captured in upper rio
Paraná
floodplain since 2013 by the Nupélia staff.
Hyphessobrycon moniliger
is a non-native species from the upper rio
Paraná
basin, probably introduced from the rio Tocantins-Araguaia basin.