{"id":1006,"date":"2020-06-27T16:18:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:18:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:18:26","slug":"a-new-miniature-species-of-odontocharacidium-characiformes-crenuchidae-from-the-rio-orinoco-basin-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/en\/2020\/06\/27\/a-new-miniature-species-of-odontocharacidium-characiformes-crenuchidae-from-the-rio-orinoco-basin-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"A new miniature species of Odontocharacidium (Characiformes: Crenuchidae) from the R\u00edo Orinoco basin, Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\"><span class=\"author-name\">Elizabeth Kathleen de Queiroz\u00a0Rodrigues and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"author-name\">Andre L.\u00a0Netto-Ferreira<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\"><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new species of\u00a0<em>Odontocharacidium<\/em>\u00a0is described from the upper R\u00edo Orinoco basin, in Venezuela. The new species is distinguished from its only congener,\u00a0<em>Odontocharacidium aphanes<\/em>, by the presence of: the antorbital, the parietal branch of the supraorbital laterosensory canal, the postcleithrum 1, the conspicuous bars extending ventrally below the middle portion of the body posteriorly, and two dark round blotches at the tip of the caudal peduncle. With the recognition of an additional species of\u00a0<em>Odontocharacidium<\/em>\u00a0the diagnostic characters of the genus and the variability in the number of maxillary teeth in specimens are discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scielo.br\/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1679-62252020000200210&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso&amp;tlng=en\">https:\/\/www.scielo.br\/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1679-62252020000200210&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso&amp;tlng=en<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1007-2\" style=\"width: 672px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1982-0224-ni-18-02-e190008-gf1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1007-2\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1982-0224-ni-18-02-e190008-gf1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"662\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1982-0224-ni-18-02-e190008-gf1.jpg 662w, https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1982-0224-ni-18-02-e190008-gf1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1982-0224-ni-18-02-e190008-gf1-624x466.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1007-2\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FIGURE 1 | Odontocharacidium varii, new species, A. Holotype, MHNLS 26156, 14.7 mm SL, Venezuela, R\u00edo Negro Municipality, R\u00edo Orinoco; Paratype, USNM 270149, 14.3 mm SL, Venezuela, R\u00edo Negro Municipality, R\u00edo Orinoco. Scale bar = 1 mm.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1008-2\" style=\"width: 679px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1982-0224-ni-18-02-e190008-gf3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1008-2\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1982-0224-ni-18-02-e190008-gf3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"482\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1008-2\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FIGURE 3 | Map of geographical distribution of Odontocharacidium varii (circles). Type-locality represented by the same symbol in white color.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Kathleen de Queiroz\u00a0Rodrigues and\u00a0Andre L.\u00a0Netto-Ferreira ABSTRACT A new species of\u00a0Odontocharacidium\u00a0is described from the upper R\u00edo Orinoco basin, in Venezuela. The new species is distinguished from its only congener,\u00a0Odontocharacidium aphanes, by the presence of: the antorbital, the parietal branch of the supraorbital laterosensory canal, the postcleithrum 1, the conspicuous bars extending ventrally below the middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sem-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ictio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}