Leporinus taeniatus Luetken , 1875

dos Santos, Sergio Alexandre & de Britto, Marcelo Ribeiro, 2021, The ichthyofauna of a poorly known area in the middle-southern Espinhaco mountain range, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil: diagnostics and identification keys, ZooKeys 1054, pp. 25-66 : 25

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1054.67554

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scientific name

Leporinus taeniatus Luetken , 1875
status

 

Leporinus taeniatus Luetken, 1875 View in CoL

Distribution.

Rio das Velhas, rio São Francisco basin, Brazil.

Diagnosis.

Leporinus taeniatus differs from its congeners by dark macula in the maxilla and reddish pigmentation under the longitudinal dark band.