https://www.copeiajournal.org/copeia-bja...8-087mk533502ht

Copeia 106, No. 4, 2018, 611–621

A New Species of Spatuloricaria Schultz, 1944 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), from the Orinoco River Basin, Colombia

Authors

Alejandro Londo˜no-Burbano1, Alexander Urbano-Bonilla2, Yecid Rojas-Molina3, Hernando Ram´ırez-Gil3, and Sa´ul Prada-Pedreros2



Fig. 1. Spatuloricaria terracanticum, IAvH-P 7685, 226.2 mm SL, holotype, Colombia, Casanare, Sabanalarga, Up´ıa River, tributary to the upper Meta River, Orinoco River basin. Scale bar ¼ 1 cm. Photograph by Y. Rojas-Molina

Abstrakt

A new species of Spatuloricaria is described from the Orinoco River basin, Colombia. The new species can be distinguished from its congeners by the following characters: a broad, dark brown stripe on the first pre-dorsal plate, which occupies the entire plate, reaching the preopercle, and sometimes reaching the second pre-dorsal plate; the possession of a small group of plates posterior to the urogenital pore; the abdominal surface with scattered, very small plates leaving naked areas; the possession of five transverse dark brown bands on the dorsal region; and four to five premaxillary teeth. The new species is the first valid species of Spatuloricaria distributed in the Orinoco River basin. Ecological notes of the species and comments regarding the taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of the genus are offered.

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