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
2018-06-11
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journal article
10.1590/1982-0224-20170094
f68fe85c-2a4c-4625-b684-74f61398d6c2
1982-0224
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Gymnotus inaequilabiatus
(Valenciennes, 1839)
Fig. 16
Body elongated and compressed; greatest depth contained 7.1 to 13.3 times in TL; head length 8.3 to 11.1, anal-fin base length
1.3 in
LEA; snout length 2.9 to 3.3, horizontal orbital diameter 13.9 to 15.4 and least interorbital width
2.3 to 2.4 in
HL. Mouth superior, dentary prognathous. Pectoral fin with 13-16 rays and anal fin with 170-260 rays; transverse series above lateral line with 6-8 scale rows. Ground color pale brown; body with light-beige transverse bars alternating with dark-brown transverse bars, visible in specimens with less than 250.0 mm TL; in larger specimens stripes can be broken or disappear, resulting in color pattern with dark-brown rounded or irregular blotches, especially on dorsal region of body; dark-brown bars wider than lightbeige bars. Hyaline fins, with scattered dark-brown spots (
Graça, Pavanelli, 2007
).
Maximum total length.
600.0 mm (
Graça, Pavanelli, 2007
).
Distribution.
Paraná-Paraguay system.