A new species of Hemibrycon (Characiformes: Characidae), a freshwater fish from the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Caribbean drainage, Colombia

A new species of Hemibrycon (Characiformes: Characidae), a freshwater fish from the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Caribbean drainage, Colombia

Hemibrycon is a group of freshwater characid fish species first recognized by Günther (1864) as a subgenus of Tetragonopterus, and now included in the subfamily Stevardiinae. There are 21 species recorded from the rivers of Colombia, but only one species, H.santamartae, has been reported previously...

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Main Authors: Carlos A. García-Alzate, César Román Valencia, Donald C. Taphorn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED) 2015-06-01
Series:Cuadernos de investigación UNED
Subjects:
Biodiversity
tropical fish
new taxon.
Online Access:https://revistas.uned.ac.cr/index.php/cuadernos/article/view/868

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