A new species of Aspidoras (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) from a small coastal drainage in northeastern Brazil

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Oliveira, Lívia M. A., Zanata, Angela M., Tencatt, Luiz F. C., Britto, Marcelo R. (2017): A new species of Aspidoras (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) from a small coastal drainage in northeastern Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology 15 (1), No. e 160118: 1-8, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20160118, URL: dx.doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-20160118 A new species of Aspidoras from the rio da Dona basin, a small coastal river drainage in Bahia State, is described herein.

The new taxon differs from its congeners by presenting infraorbital 1 with well-developed ventral laminar expansion, nuchal plate nearly reaching to or sometimes contacting posterior process of parieto-supraoccipital, anterior tip of nuchal plate just posterior to dorsal margin of first dorsolateral body plate, and blotches on dorsal half of dorsolateral body plates and/or ventral half of ventrolateral body plates fused with midlateral series of blotches, forming three or four enlarged and oblique black blotches.