Trichomycterus alterus (Marini, Nichols & LaMonte 1933)

Saravia, Alejandro Nicolás, Mettola, Víctor Ezequiel, Aguilera, Gastón, Cano, Paula Daniela & Terán, Guillermo Enrique, 2023, Do we know what we are conserving? Fishes from Parque Nacional Aconquija, Tucumán, Northwestern Argentina, Acta Zoológica Lilloana 67 (2), pp. 327-347 : 341

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.30550/j.azl/1804

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11646427

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0390D21D-FF89-FFC4-2AFE-FB16BE875EFD

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Felipe

scientific name

Trichomycterus alterus (Marini, Nichols & LaMonte 1933)
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Trichomycterus alterus (Marini, Nichols & LaMonte 1933) View in CoL

Material examined. 10 exemplars; 32.5 - 34.6 mm SL. CI FML 7841 View Materials , 4 View Materials ex, 27° 19’ 07.5”S, 65° 41’ 51.2”W Jaya River . CL FML 7843 View Materials , 3 View Materials ex, 27° 19’ 07.5”S, 65° 41’ 51.2”W Jaya River . GoogleMaps GoogleMaps Cl FML 7942 View Materials , 2 View Materials ex, 27°12’ 36.21”S; 65°37’ 22.80”W Pueblo Viejo River. GoogleMaps Cl FML 7943 View Materials , 1 View Materials ex, 27° 17’ 39.8”S, 65° 51’ 02.0” W Jaya River GoogleMaps .

Identification. Lack of a thick, rugose layer of fatty tissue on body and head; small or not visible body papillae; approximately triangular head shape in dorsal view; operculum and interoperculum with odontodes directed towards posterior region; without mentonian barbels; without adipose fin; first pectoral-fin ray as a distinct filament; 12 principal caudal-fin rays and distal margin concave; unpigmented region on the body anteroventral region to dorsal-fin origin, white dots at origin and end of dorsal-fin base ( Fernández and Vari, 2002; Fernández et al., 2017).

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