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标题：New and noteworthy Venezuelan glanapterygine catfishes (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae), with discussion of their biogeography and psammophily. American Museum novitates ; no. 3496
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作者：Schaefer ; Scott Allen, -,Provenzano, Francisco.,Pinna ; Mário C. C.,Baskin 等
期刊名称：American Museum Novitates
印刷版ISSN：0003-0082
电子版ISSN：1937-352X
出版年度：2005
卷号：2005
页码：25-27
出版社：American Museum of Natural History
摘要："Four new species of the trichomycterid subfamily Glanapteryginae are described from the Río Orinoco basin of Venezuela. Two new species each in Pygidianops Myers 1944 and Typhlobelus Myers 1944 represent the first documented occurrence of these genera in Venezuela, and for Pygidianops the first occurrence outside the Río Negro basin. The new species were captured from sand-bottom habitats in two disparate locations in the Orinoco River basin and display a remarkable suite of reductive features, such as loss of eyes, fins, and pigment, and reductions or absence of laterosensory canals and odontodes. Pygidianops cuao, n.sp. from the Río Cuao, a clear-water tributary of the upper Orinoco River, is diagnosed from its congeners by the presence of diminutive eyes and a triangular skin flap at the corner of the mouth. Pygidianops magoi, n.sp., known from near the delta of the Orinoco River, is diagnosed from its congeners by the absence of pectoral and anal fins, presence of four laterosenso...