Two new species and a review of the inseminating freshwater fish genus Monotocheirodon (Characiformes: Characidae) from Peru and Bolivia

Two new species of inseminating freshwater fishes of the genus Monotocheirodon, family Characidae, are described from Peru. Males and females of both new species have an external, visually obvious urogenital papilla that was not detected in the females in previous studies, with this longer in males,...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Naércio A. Menezes, Stanley H. Weitzman, Irani Quagio-Grassiotto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2013-01-01
Series:Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0031-10492013001000001&lng=en&tlng=en