Description of a new species of Bryconamericus (Teleostei, Characidae) from the basin of the Golfo de Paria, northeastern Venezuela

• Autores: César Román Valencia
• Localización: Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, ISSN-e 1853-0400, ISSN 1514-5158, Vol. 4, Nº. 2, 2002, págs. 209-214
• Idioma: español
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  • The new fish species Bryconamericus lassorum is described from the basin of the Golfo de Paria,northoastern Venezuela, It can be dislinguished from other species of Bryconamericus by the possession of aforamen on the maxilla, located adjacent to the anterior toolh-hearing borie, by the presence of a large, elongateapophysis on the orhitosphenoid, and by the insertion of the proximal and riidial coinponeiits of the dorsal finpterygiophores between the neural spines of the 13-19th vertcbrao