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Pinktail Chalceus
Chalceus macrolepidotus Cuvier, 1818
Also calledArari (por) · Arari-pirá (por) · Kąsacz różowoogonowy (pol) · Queue rouge, Chalceus à grandes écailles (fra) · Rødfinnet glanstetra (dan) · Tetra-gigante-de-cauda-rosa (por) · chalceus velkošupinný (ces) · Крупночешуйный халцеус (rus) · ピンクテールカラシン (jpn)
First described in: Cuvier, G. (1818). Sur les poissons du sous-genre Mylètes. <em>Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> v. 4: 444-456, Pls. 21-22.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
1. Form of mesethmoid spine (27): (0> 1) relatively short, with premaxillae articulating with each other anterior to mesethmoid. Paralleled in nodes 225 and 234 and in Paracheirodon axelrodi. 2. Laterosensory canal in antorbital (72): (0> 1) present. Paralleled in the Bryconops clade and in Brycon falcatus and Iguanodectes geisleri. 3. Branching of laterosensory canals of fourth or fifth infraorbitals (74): (0> 1) present. Paralleled in the Bryconops clade, in nodes 167, 177, 218, 260, and 276, and in Bryconamericus scleroparius and Piaractus mesopotamicus. 4. Direction of posterior branch of laterosensory canal of fourth or fifth infraorbital (75): (0> 1) to a pore conspicuously ventral to hyomandibular condyle. Paralleled in Hemiodus cf. thayeria. 5. Lateral surface of vertical canal of preopercle (81): (1> 0) canal uncovered and situated posteriorly to musculature and infraorbitals. Paralleled in nodes 170, 175, and 204 and in Metynnis maculatus. 6. Number of rows of premaxillary teeth (123): (0> 1) three. Paralleled in the Bryconinae and in Bryconaethiops macrops. 7. Number of maxillary teeth (136): (0> 1) four or more. Paralleled in nodes 177, 181, and 205 and in Hemiodus cf.
Phylogeny of the family Characidae (Teleostei: Characiformes): from characters to taxonomy
Where it has been recorded
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2353798.