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Journal of species lists and distribution
Chec List
N OTES ON G EOGRAPHIC D ISTRIBUTION
Check List 10(5): 1210–1212, 2014
© 2014 Check List and Authors
ISSN 1809-127X (available at www.checklist.org.br)
Parotocinclus collinsae Schmidt & Ferraris 1985; some
years after, the accessory teeth were also observed by many
authors in different genera and species: Reis & Schaefer
The Neotropical family Loricariidae is the largest within
the Siluriformes and contains six subfamilies. The species
included in the subfamily Hypoptopomatinae have a wide
distribution from the Orinoco basin to the Rio de la Plata,
with the largest number of small bodied hypoptopomatine
genera distributed in Southeastern Brazil. Among the
genera present in Southern Brazil, Eurycheilichthys Reis
& Schaefer, 1993 is considered until now endemic to
mountain rivers of Rio Grande do Sul State, occurring
above 600 m of altitude. Eurycheilichthys pantherinus (Reis
& Schaefer, 1992) lives in the Uruguay River basin and E.
limulus Reis & Schaefer, 1998 inhabits the upper basin of
the Jacuí River. Recent samples revealed the presence of E.
pantherinus in a small stream of the Uruguay River basin,
in the province of Misiones. Thus, this is the first record of
the species in the middle Uruguay of Argentina.
The specimens examined were collected in the arroyo
Garibaldi near San Pedro City (approx. 26°53′00″ S,
54°05′01″ W), a headwater of the arroyo Yabotí Guazú
which flows into the Uruguay river (Figures 1 and 2). The
stream has very clear, rapidly streaming water and stony
bottom. The specimens were collected only in the rapids.
Reis and Schaefer (1992) described E. pantherinus by
the possession of several characteristics: an apomorphic
character seven branched pectoral-fin rays; presence
of greatly expanded lower lip (Figure 3); accessory
ceratobranchial flange reduced to a slender uncinate
process; loss of filamentous gill rakers from the oral
surfaces of the hyoid skeleton; and very wide body, with
cleithral width 27.5–31.8% SL. The collected specimens
have these characteristics, although, one of the two cleared
and stained specimens has a large accessory flange in the
ceratobranchial. The males have a fleshy flap along the
posterior margin of the thickened first pelvic-fin rays.
Eurycheilichthys pantherinus also has an accessory series of
unicuspid teeth in the maxilla and dentary not associated
with the common bicuspid teeth. Reis and Schaefer (1992)
commented that this type of unicuspid teeth appears in
Abstract: The hypoptopomatine genus Eurycheilichthys was so far considered to be endemic to the South of Brazil. One of
its species, E. pantherinus, was described from the upper Uruguay river basin. We inform about the finding of this species
within the Garibaldi creek, headwater of the arroyo Yabotí Guazú. This is the first record for Argentina which is found in a
tributary of the middle Uruguay river.
1 Museo de La Plata, Conicet, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina.
2 Friesenstraße 11, 45476 Muelheim, Germany.
* Corresponding author. E-mail: azpeli@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar
María de las Mercedes Azpelicueta
1*
and Stefan Koerber
2
First record of the hypoptopomatine genus
Eurycheilichthys Reis & Schaefer, 1993 (Siluriformes,
Loricariidae) from Argentina
DOI: 10.15560/10.5.1210
Figure 1. Habitat where Eurycheilichthys pantherinus was collected:
Arroyo Garibaldi, Misiones, Argentina.
Figure 2. The new locality in the arroyo Garibaldi, Misiones, Argentina, is
indicated with a green dot; the other dots indicate the previously known
localities in Brazil. Pink dot is the type locality: Rio Grande do Sul, creek
tributary of rio dos Touros (Reis & Schaefer, 1998).