Two new species of Trichomycterus from Colombia

[lfinley58]

Ardila Rodríguez, C.A. 2017. DOS NUEVAS SPECIES DE PECES TRICHOMYCTERUS PARA EL DEPARTAMENTO DE SANTANDER COLOMBIA. Departmento Del Atlantico, Diciembre 15 De 2017, No. 10. Barranquilla, Colombia. 20 plus two pages.

This paper describes two new species of Trichomycterus: T. betuliaensis and T. mogotensis.

For some reason unknown, I cannot get a cut and paste on the English abstract but the link below will take you to the open access paper (text in Spanish).

https://carlosardilarodriguez.files.wor ... tensis.pdf

[bekateen]

New species:

Trichomycterus betuliaensis

Trichomycterus mogotensis

SUMMARY:
Two new species of

Trichomycterus

fish for the Department of Santander, - Colombia, are described here. They are distinguished from other known species due to their phenotype on-phylogenetic coloration, which in adults of Trichomycterus betuliaensis sp. nov. it is of a light brown background, with small dark and irregular brown spots on the whole body, even on the head; the dorsal region of the head has a square dark brown color in the parieto-supraoccipital area, and two dark brown lateral lines that go from the anterior nostril to the eyes, its maximum standard length is small: 41.1 mm of L.S., 33 - 34 free vertebrae, not including the complex caudal center. T. mogotensis sp. nov., the coloring pattern is a light brown background throughout the body. A brownish line in the horizontal line in all sizes of the specimens, noting more in young and adult specimens, without vertical bar at the base of the tail fin. The origin of the dorsal fin at the edge of the caudal fin reaches the gill opening. The pectoral filament (6.7 - 9 mm) smaller than the length of the head (9.3 - 10.9 mm). Its maximum standard length is median: 62.1 mm of L.S., 36 - 37 free vertebrae not including the complex caudal center.

• Keywords: Trans-Andean catfish, Taxonomy, Morphology, Neotropical fish.

[lfinley58]

Thanks Eric! I couldn't make it work from the site or on the downloaded PDF. Can't figure that out.
Lee

[bekateen]

No problem Lee. I did a "screen capture" to get an image of the abstract, then imported it through Nuance Paperport, which automatically converted the picture to an MS Word file. I checked for and corrected spelling mistakes created by the scanning/OCR process, and voila! Easy-peasy, lemon squeezy!

Cheers, Eric

[lfinley58]

Thanks for the "formula" Eric. I do "screen capture" when necessary, but the rest is new to me. Something to check out.

Lee