A new species of Boehlkea is described from rio Japurá, Amazon basin. The new species differs from B. fredcochui by the presence of a vertically elongate humeral spot (vs. absence), complete lateral line (vs. incomplete), four rows of scales below lateral line (vs. three), and lower number of branched anal-fin rays (17-21 vs. 22-25), and from B. orcesi by the higher number of maxillary teeth (13-14 vs. 5-12), greater head length (27.9-29.9% vs. 24.3-27.5% of SL), and by the color pattern (basal half of dorsal-fin, distal portion of pelvic-fin, lower caudal-fin lobe and anal-fin with black chromatophores vs. absence of black chromatophores in the fins).
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Soares, I. M., Bertaco, V. A., Ito, P. M. M., & Zuanon, J. (2017). A new species of boehlkea (characiformes: Characidae: Stevardiinae) from the rio japurá, amazon basin, Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-20170026
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