The fish fauna of the upper Piraí drainage, a transposed mountain river system in southeastern, Brazil de Brito, Victor Buckup, Paulo Andreas Check List 2019 2019-02-22 15 1 235 247 TMQP Travassos, 1949 Travassos 1949 [813,1221,1262,1287] Actinopterygii Crenuchidae Characidium Animalia Characiformes 2 237 Chordata species lauroi  Geographic distribution: Upper reaches of Paraíbado Sul tributaries. Diagnosis:  Characidium lauroidiffers from  C. vidaliby the presence of small rounded dark marks below the lateral stripe, which are separated from the dorsal-lateral bars, and pigmentation bars on the caudal fin are usually absent or inconspicuous ( Melo 2001b, Buckup et al. 2014).