Lophiobrycon weitzmani, a new genus and species of glandulocaudine fish (Characiformes: Characidae) from the Rio Grande drainage, upper Rio Paraná system, southeastern Brazil

Autor(es)

Castro, Ricardo M. C. ^[1] ; Ribeiro, Alexandre C. ; Benine, Ricardo C. ; Melo, Alex L. A.

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto - Brasil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: Neotropical Ichthyology; v. 1, n. 1, p. 11-19, July-Sept. 2003.
• Área do conhecimento: Ciências Biológicas - Zoologia
• Assunto(s): Characiformes Characidae Mimagoniates Filogenia Rio Grande Rio Paraná

Resumo

A new genus and species of glandulocaudine, Lophiobrycon weitzmani, is described based on specimens collected in headwater tributary streams of the rio Grande, upper rio Paraná system, State of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. The inclusion of the new species in the phylogeny of the subfamily Glandulocaudinae proposed by Weitzman & Menezes (1998), reveals a sister group relationship between the new genus and the monophyletic group composed of Glandulocauda and Mimagoniates that currently form the tribe Glandulocaudini. The new species can be readily distinguished from all other species of the tribe by the autapomorphic presence in adult male individuals (with more than 23.9 mm standard length) of an adipose-fin whose base extends for almost the entire distance between the posterior terminus of the base of the dorsal fin and the base of the upper lobe of the caudal fin and averages approximately 25% standard length, along with the presence of globular expansions formed by the lepidotrichia and hypertrophied soft tissue in the middle portions of the first and second pectoral-fin rays. The diagnosis of the tribe Glandulocaudini is modified to accommodate the new genus. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 98/05072-8 - Diversidade de recursos pesqueiros das nascentes e cursos d’água do sistema hídrico do Alto Rio Paraná no Estado de São Paulo, Brasil
• Beneficiário: Ricardo Macedo Corrêa e Castro
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Programa BIOTA - Temático