Pimelodidae

Donascimiento, Carlos, Cárdenas-Bautista, Johann-Stephens, Acosta, Kevin Giancarlo Borja, González-Alvarado, Arturo & Medina, Claudia A., 2016, Illustrated and online catalog of type specimens of freshwater fishes in the Colección de Peces Dulceacuícolas of Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH-P), Colombia, Zootaxa 4171 (3), pp. 401-438 : 413-414

Pimelodidae

Megalonema amaxanthum Lundberg & Dahdul, 2008: 447 , fig. 6.

Paratypes ( Fig. 26 ). IAvH-P 11020 (14, 30.0–54.0 mm SL). Brazil, Pará, Amazon River Basin, rio Tocantins above rio Pará, collected with 3 m bottom trawl in 3–5 m channel, 02°24’17.5”S 49°27’55.5”W; J. Lundberg et al., 19 Nov 1994.

Remarks: received from M. Sabaj Pérez, formerly ANSP 189096, in part.

Megalonema orixanthum Lundberg & Dahdul, 2008: 450 , fig. 7.

Paratypes ( Fig. 27 ). IAvH-P 11021 (2, 94.0– 96.5 mm SL). Colombia, Meta, Orinoco River Basin, río Meta drainage, río Metica , ca. 3 km SE of Hacienda Mozambique, 03°57’N 73°02’W; J. Böhlke et al., 24 Mar 1975. Remarks: collected with holotype; received from M. Sabaj Pérez, formerly ANSP 148143 , in part.

Figures

FIGURE 26. Paratype of Megalonema amaxanthum, IAvH-P 11020, 54.0 mm SL (scale bar = 1 cm). Photograph by M. H. Sabaj Pérez.

FIGURE 27. Paratype of Megalonema orixanthum, IAvH-P 11021, 94.0 mm SL (scale bar = 1 cm). Lateral view corresponding to right side. Photograph by M. H. Sabaj Pérez.