Description of a new species of Bryconamericus (Teleostei, Characidae) from the basin of the Golfo de Paria, northeastern Venezuela

Abstract

Abstrack The new fish species Bryconarnericus lassorum is described from the basin of the Golfo de Paria, northoastern Venezuela, It can be dislinguished from other species of Brycor~anrricus by the possession of a foramen on the maxilla, located adjacent to the anterior toolh-hearing borie, by the presence of a large, elongate apophysis on the orhitosphenoid, and by the insertion of the proximal and riidial coinponeiits of the dorsal fin pterygiophores between the neural spines of the 13-19th vertcbrao.