Phalloceros harpagos Lucinda, 2008

dos Santos, Sergio Alexandre & de Britto, Marcelo Ribeiro, 2021, The ichthyofauna of a poorly known area in the middle-southern Espinhaco mountain range, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil: diagnostics and identification keys, ZooKeys 1054, pp. 25-66 : 25

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1054.67554

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scientific name

Phalloceros harpagos Lucinda, 2008
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Distribution.

Rio Paraná-Paraguay basin and coastal rivers from rio Itabapoana to rio Araranguá, in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina.

Diagnosis.

Phalloceros harpagos differs from P. uai by having gonopodium with hook in the two gonopodial appendages in males positioned close to the appendages; distal half of the appendage narrower than proximal half; urogenital papilla centralized in females, positioned between anus and the base of first anal fin ray.

Remarks.

Albeit P. harpagos presents a relatively wide distribution in coastal drainages of Brazil, here we present the first record of the species in the rio Santo Antônio basin.