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Issue: Vol. 5138 No. 5: 20 May 2022
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2022-05-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5138.5.8
Page range: 597-599
Abstract views: 278
PDF downloaded: 24

Notes on the skeletal anatomy of Priocharax ariel Weitzman & Vari, 1987 with implications for its taxonomy (Teleostei: Characiformes)

Laboratório de Ictiologia de Sorocaba, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 18052-780, Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology and Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Museum of Zoology, 01109, Dresden, Germany.
Pisces Teleostei Characiformes

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