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Characidium ortegai

Characidium ortegai (Chort_u0.jpg)
by Oliveira-Silva, L. et al., 2025

Size (cm): 3 SL
Locality: Peru, Charapa creek, La Convención Province  
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Date: 2022-10-24 
Reference: Oliveira-Silva, L., R. Britzke, V. Meza-Vargas, M.H. Hidalgo, D. Faustino-Fuster, C. Oliveira and A.M. Zanata, 2025
Morphological and molecular evidence reveals a new species of Characidium from the Ucayali-Urubamba Piedmont, Peru, and novel molecular clades are proposed within the genus.
 
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Remark: Holotype, MUSM 77985; Photo used under CC-BY license 



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