Oligosarcus perdido (Characiformes, Characidae), a new species of freshwater fish from Serra da Bodoquena, upper Rio Paraguai basin, Brazil.
Alexandre C. Ribeiro
Marcel R. Cavallaro
Otávio Froehlich
Zootaxa
2007
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67QY
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Characidae
Oligosarcus
CoL
Animalia
Oligosarcus Günther 1864:353
Characiformes
43
Chordata
genus
The genus Oligosarcusconsists of 16 previously described species (Menezes, 1969a; Menezes, 1987; Miquelarena & Protogino, 1996), distributed throughout most of the main hydrographic systems of cisAndean South America below 14º of latitude (Menezes, 1988). This wide distributional range includes the Bolivian and Argentinean Andean highlands, the Brazilian crystalline shield, and the Atlantic slope drainages of eastern and southern South America (Menezes, 1988). Species of Oligosarcusare typically small-to medium sized predators on arthropods and other fishes, inhabiting mainly smaller tributaries of the main river basins (Menezes, 1969b; Aranha et. al, 1998; Casatti, 2003; Hermes-Silva et al., 2004). Menezes (1987) provided a comprehensive review of the previous known species and described three new ones. The latest addition to the genus was made by Miquelarena & Protogino (1996) in describing Oligosarcus menezesi. No intraspecific phylogenetic information on this genus has been already provided; however, the presence of tricuspid teeth along most of ectopterygoid length, a unique feature among a set of genera presently assigned as incertae sedis in Characidae (Lima et al, 2003), suggests that the genus consists of a monophyletic group. The phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of Oligosarcusare currently under study by one of the authors (ACR).