Melanocharacidium dispilomma Buckup, 1993

Sébastien Brosse, Fréderic Melki & Régis Vigouroux, 2019, Fishes of the Mitaraka Mountains (French Guiana), Zoosystema 41 (8), pp. 131-151 : 136-138

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a8
publication LSID	urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F175E88B-F75F-4BDF-87AC-9BF8C46BF714
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5931574
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E887C7-2212-FFA4-FCE3-F875ED03FB3D
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Melanocharacidium dispilomma Buckup, 1993
status

Treatment

FIRST RECORD FOR THE MITARAKA. — This study.

OCCURENCES. — S12.

SPECIMENS IN COLLECTION. — 3 MNHN (MNHN-IC-2018-0425,

MNHN-IC-2018-0426, MNHN-IC-2018-0427); 2 Hydreco.

DISTRIBUTION IN FRENCH GUIANA. — Maroni, Mana and Sinnamary drainages. Only known from a few sites.

ECOLOGY. — This rare species was only observed in a side arm channel of a rapid area of the Alama River. It was found in a bedrock and boulders habitat with turbulent water. Captured using rotenone.

SPECIES CODE. — MDIS.