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The
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of
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clearly does not match the series of specimens assigned to that species by
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, which are referred herein to
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sp.
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Both linear and geometric methods revealed the
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to have a shallower body than does
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(
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,
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). The
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falls well outside the 95% confidence ellipse for
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in the scatterplot of PC2 versus PC1 from the geometric analysis. Furthermore, the
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has six scales in the transverse series above the lateral line, whereas all examined specimens of
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have five scales in that series.
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It is important to note that the lot of
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sp.
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examined in this study (INPA 15405) does not appear in the series of comparative material that
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assigned to
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during their description of
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, presumably because it was on loan to us at the time that they prepared their manuscript. The lot that we examined is from the same general region of
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as
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specimens (
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) and it was originally identified by staff at INPA as
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. There is no doubt that
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concept of
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matches the
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sp.
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of this contribution.
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Although
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clearly does not belong to the same species as the
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, its taxonomic status is unresolved. It might represent an undescribed species, but it is morphometrically (
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4) and meristically (
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) indistinguishable from
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<emphasis id="B9659732495CB22BFC3CA9EBFC28FA43" box="[941,964,1484,1505]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="126">L.</emphasis>
cf.
<emphasis id="B9659732495CB22BFC7DA9EBFBA1FA43" box="[1004,1101,1484,1505]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="126">niceforoi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
despite inhabiting a separate region of the Amazon drainage. These two groups also share similar colour patterns. If
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<emphasis id="B9659732495CB22BFB4AAA2EFAA1F9BC" box="[1243,1357,1545,1566]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="126">Leporinus</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
is conspecific with all, or part of, the current concept of
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<emphasis id="B9659732495CB22BFCABAA60FC28F9F9" box="[826,964,1606,1628]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="126">L. niceforoi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, this would represent a major range extension for
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<emphasis id="B9659732495CB22BFC47AA42FBBAF9D8" box="[982,1110,1637,1658]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="126">L. niceforoi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Many more specimens from a broader geographical range are required to resolve this question. Until such specimens are available, we prefer to put the taxonomic status of
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<emphasis id="B9659732495CB22BFA92AAE6FA99F974" box="[1283,1397,1729,1750]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="126">Leporinus</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
into abeyance.
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