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Title: Harttia merevari, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes:Loricariidae) from Venezauela
Authors: Provenzano R, Francisco
Chernoff, Barry
Machado-Allison, Antonio
Willink, Phil
Petry, Paulo
Keywords: Taxonomy, Harttiini, Caura River, Orinoco River basin, Guyana shield, Biogeography. * Instituto de Zoología Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Apartado 47058, Caracas 1041-A, Venezuela. e-mail: fprovenz@strix.ciens.ucv.ve; amachado@strix.ciens.ucv.ve ** Department of Biology & Dept. Earth & Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459. e-mail: bchernoff@wesleyan.edu *** Department of Zoology, Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr., Chicago IL 60605, USA. e-mail: pwillink@fieldmuseum.org **** Department of Ichthyology, Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 002138, USA. email: ppetry@oeb.harvard.edu Introduction
Issue Date: 9-Mar-2018
Series/Report no.: Neotropical Ichthyology;3-4:519-524
Abstract: Harttia merevari, a new species of loricariid catfish, is described from eight specimens captured in the upper Caura River,Orinoco River basin, Venezuela. The new species is recognized by the following combination of characters: abdomen naked; two or three preanal plates; a bony plate before each branchial opening; seven lateral plates between the pectoral and pelvic fins; maxillary barbel short and attached to the oral disk by a fleshy fold; head dorsal surface and anterior portion of the body light or dark yellow with numerous, round black spots; posterior region of the body light or dark yellow with five black transverse bands, dorsal central area of the two anterior bands diffused. The discovery of this new species extends the distribution of the genus northwest to include the Orinoco River basin on the northern slope of the Guyana shield.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10872/17969
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