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
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1982-0224
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Astyanax lacustris
(Lütken, 1875)
Fig. 7
Body deep; greatest depth contained 1.8 to 2.9 and caudal peduncle depth 6.6 to 10.1 times in SL; head length 3.0 to 4.4, predorsal distance 1.6 to 2.4 and caudal peduncle length
7.8 to 8.4 in
SL; snout length 3.2 to 4.1, horizontal orbital diameter 2.3 to 4.7 and least interorbital width
1.9 to 3.3 in
HL. Mouth terminal; inner row of premaxilla with 5 teeth, outer with 4 or 5, dentary with 8-16, and no maxillary teeth. Lateral line complete, with 33-41 pored scales; transverse series above lateral line with 6 to 8 scale rows and below with 4-8 scale rows. Dorsal fin with 12, pectoral fin with 12 or 13, pelvic fin with 8 or 9, anal fin with 22-34, and caudal fin with 19. Ground color silvery; one black rounded humeral blotch followed by another vertically elongated humeral blotch; silvery longitudinal band on flank (brown or grey in fixed specimens), from humeral blotch to median caudal-fin rays, larger on caudal peduncle, forming oval-shaped, horizontally elongated, blotch. Yellowish fins (
Graça, Pavanelli, 2007
).
Maximum standard length.
129.2 mm
(
Graça, Pavanelli, 2007
).
Distribution.
Río de la Plata basin, Laguna dos Patos and rio Tramandaí drainages, rio São Francisco (
Lucena, Soares, 2016
) and, according to
Garutti, Langeani (2009)
, rio Tocantins-Araguaia basins.
Remarks.
Astyanax lacustris
was identified as
A. altiparanae
by
Graça, Pavanelli (2007)
.
Lucena, Soares (2016)
, in a revisionary study of some species in the
Astyanax bimaculatus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
group from Southern Neotropical river basins, proposed the new synonym.