Sternopygus macrurus ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801 )

Reia, Lais, S. da Costa e Silva, Gabriel, Garcia-Ayala, James R., P. F. Vicensotto, Ana Maria & Benine, Ricardo C., 2020, Ichthyofauna of the ribeirão Sucuri, a tributary of the rio Tietê, upper rio Paraná basin, southeastern Brazil, Check List 16 (3), pp. 711-728 : 720

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.15560/16.3.711

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scientific name

Sternopygus macrurus ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801 )
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Sternopygus macrurus ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801) View in CoL Figure 3 AI

Original description. Gymnotus macrurus Bloch and Schneider 1801: 522 .

Material examined. BRAZIL • 3, 199.6− 226.2 mm TL; São Paulo state, Pongaí, Córrego Água Grande ; 21°41′ 31″S, 049°20′31″W; 12 May 2018; leg. Silva G.S.C. and Reia L. (LBP 26504) GoogleMaps .

Identification. Body elongated and compressed; mouth terminal; all teeth conical, premaxilla and dentary with several small teeth arranged in irregular rows. Eyes above horizontal midline of body. Anal fin with 215 to 230 total rays. Scales cycloid; caudal filament narrow. Overall body coloration yellowish; conspicuous dark humeral blotch; cream-white narrow stripe from a verti- cal reaching 150° anal-fin ray to tip caudal-filament.

Bloch ME, Schneider JG (1801) M. E. Blochii, Systema ichthyologiae iconibus CX illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Be- rolini. Sumtibus Austoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum, i-lx + 584 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 5750

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Gymnotiformes

Family

Sternopygidae

Genus

Sternopygus