A new Hyphessobrycon (Characiformes: Characidae) species from the middle and lower Rio Xingu basin, Brazil

• Grant number: 15/22007-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2015
• End date: November 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Flávio César Thadeo de Lima
• Grantee: Tiago de Carvalho Faria
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biologia (IB). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 11/51532-7 - Systematics of tetras (genera Hemigrammus, Hyphessobrycon, Thayeria, Parapristella, and Bryconella), with emphasis on the species from the northern cis-andean South America., AP.JP

Abstract

The description of a new species of the genus Hyphessobrycon from the rio Xingu basin will be done. This new species, identified by the project coordinator some years ago at the MPEG fish collection, will be undertaken with material from the latter collection and also from already identified material at the MNRJ collection. The proposed project will allow an adequate initial training in taxonomy and related disciplines to the student that will undertake it. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

FARIA, TIAGO C.; LIMA, FLAVIO C. T.; BASTOS, DOUGLAS A.. A new Hyphessobrycon (Characiformes: Characidae) from the rio Xingu Basin, Brazil. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, v. 166, n. 1, JUN 2017. (13/20936-0, 15/22007-2, 11/51532-7)