A new species of Boehlkea (Characiformes: Characidae: Stevardiinae) from the rio Japurá, Amazon basin, Brazil

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Soares, Isabel M., Bertaco, Vinicius A., Ito, Priscila Madoka M., Zuanon, Jansen (2017): A new species of Boehlkea (Characiformes: Characidae: Stevardiinae) from the rio Japurá, Amazon basin, Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology 15 (3), No. e 170026: 1-38, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20170026, URL: dx.doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-20170026 A new species of Boehlkea is described from rio Japurá, Amazon basin.

The new species differs from B. fredcochui by the presence of a vertically elongate humeral spot (vs. absence), complete lateral line (vs. incomplete), four rows of scales below lateral line (vs. three), and lower number of branched anal-fin rays (17-21 vs. 22-25), and from B. orcesi by the higher number of maxillary teeth (13-14 vs. 5-12), greater head length (27.9-29.9% vs. 24.3-27.5% of SL), and by the color pattern (basal half of dorsal-fin, distal portion of pelvic-fin, lower caudal-fin lobe and anal-fin with black chromatophores vs. absence of black chromatophores in the fins).