Publication Date:
2017-09-07
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Description of 64 species of fresh‐water Fishes of the suborder Characoidei (Cypriniformes), collected by Dr. K. H. Lüling during his 1959/60 Expedition in lower Ucayali and Iquitos regions.
New forms for science (about 10 per cent of the collected species) are: a new genus, Oxybrycon, which seems to be close to Leptobrycon and Macropsobrycon; a Hemigrammus‐species and 2 Hyphessobrycon‐species; a Cheirodon (the genus was not signaled from Peruvian Amazon); and a Serrasalmus. Besides, 10 species seem to be new for the concerned territory, whereas 2 other forms have been described in former papers (see References). Some identification‐Keys are given, concerning Amazonian Triportheus and Schizodon, as well as concerning one Curimatus‐group of species. Finally a list of the characoid Fishes, known to occur in the Iquitos surroundings and in the lower Ucayali, is given.
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