New Panaqolus: L398 = Panaqolus tankei

[bekateen]

Cramer, C.A., & Melo de Sousa, L. 2016. A New Species of Tiger Pleco Panaqolus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Xingu Basin, Brazil. PLoS ONE 11(11): e0165388. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0165388

ABSTRACT

Panaqolus tankei

is described from the Xingu River, Brazil. The new species is diagnosed from P. albomaculatus, P. dentex, P. nix, P. nocturnus, and P. koko by its color pattern consisting of dark and light diagonal bars on the body and bands on the fins (vs. body and fins without bars or bands); from P. albivermis, P. maccus, and P. purusiensis by the width of the dark bars being more or less the same of the light bars (vs. dark bars at least two or three times wider than light bars) and from P. changae by the absence of vermiculation on the head (vs. vermiculation present on head). The new species differs from P. gnomus by the orientation of the bars from posterodorsal to anteroventral direction (vs. anterodorsal to posteroventral direction), and from P. claustellifer by the orientation of the bands in the dorsal fin that are not parallel to the margin (vs. parallel to the margin). The barcoding region (COI) was sequenced for the new species, sequences were deposited in GenBank and were compared with congeners from other drainages. With regard to the current construction of a hydroelectric power plant (a so-called mega dam) in the Xingu River, herewith we increase knowledge of the river Xingu’s ichthyofauna and, thus improve the assessment of the impacts of that construction on the river.

[Birger]

Cangradulations go to Andreas For managing to get his name used for this fish...a great honor!

Birger

[andi]

Hi Birger,
thank you very much.
I'm very happy about it, especially because it was my first Panaqolus and also the first that I've bred. So I always will have a special relationship to this species. And it is also from my favorite river: The Xingu!


Cheers Andi