Astrodoras asterifrons (Kner, 1853)

Collins, Rupert A., Duarte Ribeiro, Emanuell, Nogueira Machado, Valeria, Hrbek, Tomas & Farias, Izeni Pires, 2015, A preliminary inventory of the catfishes of the lower Rio Nhamunda, Brazil (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), Biodiversity Data Journal 3, pp. 4162-4162 : 4162

Astrodoras asterifrons (Kner, 1853)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 43868 ; recordedBy: Valéria Nogueira Machado; Emanuell Duarte Ribeiro; Rupert A. Collins; individualCount: 2; otherCatalogNumbers: UFAM:CTGA:14539; UFAM:CTGA:14540; associatedSequences: KP772601; Taxon: scientificName: Astrodoras asterifrons (Kner, 1853); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Actinopterygii; order: Siluriformes; family: Doradidae; genus: Astrodoras; specificEpithet: asterifrons; scientificNameAuthorship: (Kner, 1853); Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Pará; locality: Lower Nhamunda River ; decimalLatitude: -2.02386; decimalLongitude: -56.78235; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: Rupert A. Collins; Event: eventDate: 2013-11; Record Level: institutionCode: INPA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Notes

Identification to species level follows Sousa (2010) based on the following characters: flattened body shape; upper limit of pre-opercular canal not reaching lateral border of the cranium; seven branched rays in the dorsal lobe of the caudal fin; dorsal margin of the orbit high; procurrent rays of the caudal fin expanded into bony shields; and diverticula of the swim bladder simple, with tapered rear end.

Two individuals were caught by hand-net at night over a sandy/silty substrate (sampling site NH12). An example of a live specimen is pictured in Fig. 9.