New Parondontid Tetra Discovered In Guyana
A new species of parodontid tetra has been described from Guyana in a recent issue of the journal Zootaxa.
The new species, named Apareiodon agmatos by Donald Taphorn, Hernán López-Fernández and Calvin Bernard, is known from the upper Mazaruni River drainage in western Guyana.
The new species differs from all other members of the family in having an incomplete lateral line; it also has the most scales among parodontids.
Apareiodon agmatos is further distinguished from all other congeners (except for A. gransabana) in having a colour pattern of five dark stripes on the sides of the body.
This species is named after its incomplete lateral line (from the Greek word for fragment). [Via]
