Vertebrate Zoology 62(2): 181-188, doi:

A new species of Laetacara from the northern Brazil coastal floodplains (Teleostei: Cichlidae) PDF

Felipe Polivanov Ottoni^‡§, Pedro H. N. Bragança, Pedro F. Amorim, Cecile S. Gama

‡ Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Chapadinha, Brazil§ Federal University of Maranhão, Brazil

Corresponding author: Felipe Ottoni ( fpottoni@gmail.com )

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Citation: Ottoni FP, Bragança PHN, Amorim PF, Gama CS (2012) A new species of Laetacara from the northern Brazil coastal floodplains (Teleostei: Cichlidae) PDF. Vertebrate Zoology 62(2): 181-188

Abstract

Laetacara flamannellus sp. n. is described from the northern Brazilian coastal floodplains. It differs from all its congeners by a combination of character states: presence of a dark brown or black spot located on dorsal-fin base; presence of a yellow stripe on the middle portion of the dorsal fin, crossing the whole fin; presence of an orange ring around the dorsal-fin base spot; absence of a red pigmentation on belly; absence of a red or purple zone on the anal-fin base; absence of a red zone on the caudal-fin base; cycloid scales on the opercle plate; and trunk scales above upper lateral line with few ctenii. The presence of a deep notch in the dorsal margin of the anterior ceratohyal, often used as diagnostic for Laetacara, is confirmed here for L. flamannellus.

Keywords

Amapá coastal rivers; Cichlinae; Cichlasomatini; Laetacara curviceps; Laetacara dorsigera; South American cichlids; systematics; taxonomy.