New tetra from the rio Xingu basin
March 6th, 2013 — 10:05am
Live specimen of E. altipinnis. © Netto-Ferreira et al.
A new miniature characid genus and species from the rio Curuá at Serra do Cachimbo, Pará state, Brazil. has been described in the open access journal PLoS ONE.
Erythrocharax altipinnis is the only known member of the new genus and can be told apart from related groupings by having the pelvic bones firmly attached through the horizontal isquiatic processes. Continue reading »
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