Plesiolebias Costa

Costa, Wilson J. E. M., 2007, Taxonomy of the plesiolebiasine killifish genera Pituna, Plesiolebias and Maratecoara (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), with descriptions of nine new species, Zootaxa 1410, pp. 1-41 : 20

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.175565

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5613055

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Plesiolebias Costa
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Plesiolebias Costa View in CoL View at ENA

Plesiolebias Costa, 1989b: 193 View in CoL (type species: Cynolebias xavantei Costa, Lacerda & Tanizaki View in CoL , by original designation).

Diagnosis. Distinguished from all other genera of Plesiolebiasini by the following unique features: posterior process of quadrate and sympletic long (vs. short) ( Costa, 1998a), interarcual cartilage absent (vs. present) ( Costa, 1998a), rays of anterior portion of anal fin longer than posterior rays (vs. longer) ( Costa, 1995a), and frontal squamation G-patterned (vs. F or D patterned) ( Costa, 1998a).

Distribution. Southeastern Amazonian basin, including Xingu, Araguaia, and Tocantins river drainages, Brazil; and rio Paraguay basin, in northern Brazilian Pantanal ( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 ).

Remarks. The systematic accounts below should be viewed as a complement to the recent taxonomic revision of Plesiolebias ( Costa, 1998c) , where redescriptions of P. xavantei , P. l a c e rd a i, P. aruana , and P. glaucopterus are included.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Cyprinodontiformes

Family

Rivulidae

Loc

Plesiolebias Costa

Costa, Wilson J. E. M. 2007
2007
Loc

Plesiolebias

Costa 1989: 193
1989
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