Geographic distribution of Phalloceros Eigenmann, 1907 (Cyprinodontiformes, Poeciliidae) in the Ilha Grande Bay Hydrographic Region, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Souto-Santos, Igor Cavalcanti de Araújo
Author
Ferraro, Gustavo Andrés
Author
Jennings, William Bryan
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Vergara, Gabriela Lucia da Silva
Author
Buckup, Paulo Andreas
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Phalloceros tupinamba
Lucinda, 2008
Figure 2E
Materials examined.
Brazil
:
Rio de Janeiro
: Fazenda Japuíba, município de Angra dos Reis, L.Travassos, H. Travassos, E. Travassos,
28 April 1945
(
MNRJ
4226). Fazenda Japuíba, município de Angra dos Reis, P. Miranda-Ribeiro, G.S. Myers, H. Travassos,
August 1942
(
MNRJ
8518,
MNRJ
8548).
Identification.
Phalloceros tupinamba
is very similar
to
P. leptokeras
, another species with female urogenital papilla oriented to the left side. According to
Lucinda (2008)
,
P. tupinamba
has a narrow vertically elongate dark lateral spot covering 1 scale, while the latter has a densely pigmented rectangular spot covering 2 or 3 scales. The spot in all 63 examined sexually mature males from the rio Japuíba covers 1 or 1½ scales, but never 2.
In specimens from the rio Japuíba the lateral spot is positioned between the 14th to 17th scale of the longitudinal series. The position of the spot in the Japuíba population is therefore intermediate between that of the
type
series of
P. tupinamba
(16th–19th scale) and
P. leptokeras
(14th–16th), as recorded by
Lucinda (2008)
.
Distribution.
Phalloceros tupinamba
had previously
been recorded in coastal streams located both to the east
and west of the IGBHR and now is recorded for the first time in the IGBHR, where it has been collected in the Japuíba drainage (
Fig. 1
). The new record is based on 3 samples collected in 1942 and 1945. Recent efforts to col- lect specimens of
P. tupinamba
were unsuccessful due to increased habitat loss associated with the growth of urban areas and presence of a water-treatment facility, which, during dry periods, diverts the entire water flow of the rio Japuíba for human consumption.
Identification key for
Phalloceros
from
Ilha
Grande