• DOI:10.1643/CI-02-160R1
Corpus ID: 9191738

New, Possibly Extinct Lithogenine Loricariid (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from Northern Venezuela

@article{FranciscoProvenzano2003NewPE,
  title={New, Possibly Extinct Lithogenine Loricariid (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from Northern Venezuela},
  author={R. FranciscoProvenzano and S. Schaefer and J. Baskin and Ramiro Royero-Le{\'o}n},
  journal={Copeia},
  year={2003},
  volume={2003},
  pages={562 - 575}
}

• Francisco Provenzano R., S. Schaefer, +1 author Ramiro Royero-León
• Published 2003
• Biology
• Copeia

Abstract A new species of the previously monotypic loricariid subfamily Lithogeninae is described from northern Venezuela. Lithogenes valencia is the first representative of the subfamily to be discovered subsequent to the discovery and description of Lithogenes villosus Eigenmann, 1909, from Guyana and extends the geographic distribution of the subfamily beyond the Guyana Shield region of northeastern South America. The new species shares several derived features with L. villosus that are not… Expand

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