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Genus
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[352,482,1252,1278]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Pachypops</emphasis>
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Gill
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species.
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<emphasis box="[414,617,1321,1344]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Micropogon trifilis</emphasis>
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Müller and Troschel
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:
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(by original designation).
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<emphasis box="[264,383,1391,1416]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Diagnosis</emphasis>
. Distinguished from the two other known South American freshwater sciaenid genera (
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<emphasis box="[362,487,1431,1456]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Pachyurus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis box="[550,690,1431,1456]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Plagioscion</emphasis>
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) by the following combination of characters: mouth inferior, presence of three mental barbels, the swimbladder with a pair log posterior branches projecting from shorter paired anterior appendages (
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Fig.
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), and presence of the expanded haemal spine on the first caudal vertebra (
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Fig.
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). Gender masculine.
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<emphasis box="[312,436,1591,1616]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Comments</emphasis>
. According to
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Sasaki (
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,
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<emphasis box="[796,925,1591,1616]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Pachypops</emphasis>
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is characterized phylogenetically by its swimbladder with a pair of anterior appendages (see
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Fig.
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), the possession of an unpored median barbel, and the possession of a pair of mental barbels. An unpublished phylogenetic study of South American freshwater sciaenids done by the author of the present paper reveals that the species of
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<emphasis box="[746,875,1751,1776]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Pachypops</emphasis>
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share not only those synapomorphies listed by
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Sasaki (
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but also an expanded haemal spine on the first caudal vertebra (see
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Fig.
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). These four synapomorphies are assumed to be homoplastic with other perciforms in the final most parsimonious phylogeny.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[264,394,870,894]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
Ventral view of the swimbladder of
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<emphasis box="[781,990,870,893]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Pachypops fourcroi</emphasis>
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(A) and
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<emphasis box="[1083,1096,870,893]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">P</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[1110,1212,870,893]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">pigmaeus</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel box="[1218,1275,870,893]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
(B). Not to scale.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[264,387,1787,1811]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">FIGURE 2</emphasis>
. Lateral view of the anal fin and associated vertebra of
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<emphasis box="[979,1167,1787,1810]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Pachypops trifilis</emphasis>
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. Scale bar is 5 mm; cvert, first caudal vertebrae; hsc1, haemal spine of the first caudal vertebrae; ppt1, first pterigyophore of anal fin.
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</caption>
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and Eigenmann (
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:
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assigned
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<emphasis box="[845,1095,284,309]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Pachyurus adspersus</emphasis>
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Steindachner
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to the genus
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<emphasis box="[424,553,324,349]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Pachypops</emphasis>
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. However, despite bearing three mental barbels and six mental pores,
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<emphasis box="[342,357,364,389]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">P</emphasis>
.
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lacks the expanded haemal spine and the appendages on the swimbladder, which occur in
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<emphasis box="[521,650,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Pachypops</emphasis>
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.
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Casatti (
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considered
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<emphasis box="[997,1011,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">P</emphasis>
.
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</taxonomicName>
a member of
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<emphasis box="[264,390,444,469]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Pachyurus</emphasis>
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as originally proposed by Steindachner. An expanded haemal spine on the first caudal vertebra is also present in some other examined perciforms (the haemulid
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Haemulon steindachneri</emphasis>
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, the polynemid
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<emphasis box="[664,939,524,549]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Polydactylus virginicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and the sciaenids
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Cuvier" baseAuthorityYear="1829" class="Actinopterygii" family="Sciaenidae" genus="Dendrophysa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="russelli">Dendrophysa russelli</taxonomicName>
,
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</emphasis>
, and
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<emphasis box="[642,882,564,589]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Plagioscion auratus</emphasis>
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, pers. obser.) but it is interpreted as having been independently derived in these taxa.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="3.[264,1324,284,830]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
Based on the barbel morphology
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<emphasis box="[701,925,644,669]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Pachypops cevegei</emphasis>
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Cervigón
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</taxonomicName>
is not a species of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gill" authorityYear="1861" box="[264,393,684,709]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Sciaenidae" genus="Pachypops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[264,393,684,709]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Pachypops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but instead a species of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Bonaparte in Bonaparte" authorityYear="1831" box="[697,875,684,709]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Sciaenidae" genus="Micropogonias" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[697,875,684,709]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Micropogonias</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Therefore, of six nominal species of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gill" authorityYear="1861" box="[264,393,724,749]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Sciaenidae" genus="Pachypops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[264,393,724,749]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Pachypops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
according to previous authors, two (
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Steindachner" baseAuthorityYear="1879" box="[864,1123,724,749]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Sciaenidae" genus="Pachypops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="adspersus">
<emphasis box="[864,1123,724,749]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Pachypops adspersus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Cervigon" authorityYear="1982" class="Actinopterygii" family="Sciaenidae" genus="Pachypops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cevegei">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Pachypops cevegei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) are not assignable to the genus. The remaining nominal species are discussed below under “Comments” for
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="La Cepede" baseAuthorityYear="1802" box="[619,849,804,829]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Sciaenidae" genus="Pachypops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="fourcroi">
<emphasis box="[619,849,804,829]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Pachypops fourcroi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Rio Mamore" baseAuthorityName="Muller and Troschel" baseAuthorityYear="1848" box="[906,1113,804,829]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Sciaenidae" genus="Pachypops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Perciformes" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="trifilis">
<emphasis box="[906,1113,804,829]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Pachypops trifilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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