Apteronotidae
Creators: name: Donascimiento, Carlos
name: Cárdenas-Bautista, Johann-Stephens
name: Acosta, Kevin Giancarlo Borja
name: González-Alvarado, Arturo
name: Medina, Claudia A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Gymnotiformes
Apteronotidae

description: Apteronotidae
Adontosternarchus nebulosus Lundberg & Cox Fernandes, 2007: 28, figs. 1–2.
Paratypes (Fig. 2). IAvH-P 8585 (2, 91.6–106.0 mm TL). Brazil, Amazonas, Amazon River Basin, rio Solimões, below rio Purus, collected with 3 m bottom trawl, 03°35’51.4”S, 61°07’40.8”W; M. Toledo-Piza et al., 31 Jul 1996.
Apteronotus eschmeyeri de Santana, Maldonado-Ocampo, Severi & Mendes, 2004: 410, figs. 1–2. Paratypes (Fig. 3). IAvH-P 3304 (8, 159.8– 286.3 mm TL). Colombia, Tolima, Honda, Magdalena River basin, río Magdalena, 05°15’N 74°50’W; J. A. Maldonado-Ocampo, 23 Feb 2003.
Apteronotus galvisi de Santana, Maldonado-Ocampo & Crampton, 2007: 118, fig. 1. Holotype (Fig. 4). IAvH-P 8133 (1, 184.4 mm TL). Colombia, Casanare, Tauramena, Orinoco River Basin, río Meta drainage, río Cusiana, bridge El Venado, on road Yopal-Pore, 05°00’50”N 72°41’30.9”W, elevation 305 m; J. Bogotá et al., 11 Apr 2006.
Remarks: this specimen came from IAvH-P 8130.
Paratypes. IAvH-P 8129 (6, 130.4– 174.2 mm TL). Colombia, Casanare, Yopal, Orinoco River Basin, río Meta drainage, quebrada La Aguatoca at bridge on road to Morro, 05°26’21.2”N 72°27’09.7”W, elevation 357 m; J. Bogotá et al., 10 Apr 2006.
Remarks: 6 paratypes cited in original description, 1 specimen with tail broken (151.0 mm TL), 1 additional specimen cataloged in the same lot and damaged in the anterior region (137.8 mm TL); total length of smaller specimen in this lot different from that reported in original description (125.0 mm TL).
IAvH-P 8130 (2, 97.5–99.2 mm TL). Collected with holotype.
IAvH-P 8131 (2, 124.8– 162.6 mm TL). Colombia, Casanare, Orinoco River Basin, río Meta drainage, río Pauto at bridge on road to Yopal-Pore, 05°33’44”N 72°08’44”W, elevation 306 m; J. Bogotá et al., 12 Apr 2006.
IAvH-P 8132 (2, 98.3–158.4 mm TL). Colombia, Casanare, Sabanalarga, Orinoco River Basin, río Meta drainage, río Upía at bridge on road to Sisga, 04°49’09.4”N 73°04’57.6”W, elevation 327 m; J. Bogotá et al., 14 Apr 2006. IAvH-P 8167 (3, 170.6– 189.8 mm TL). Colombia, Casanare, Yopal, Orinoco River Basin, río Meta drainage, río Cravo Sur at suspension bridge, 05°25’37.6”N 72°27’11.6”W, elevation 424 m; J. Bogotá et al., 10 Apr 2006.
Apteronotus milesi de Santana & Maldonado-Ocampo, 2005: 224, figs. 1–2.
Holotype (Fig. 5). IAvH-P 3996 (160.4 mm TL). Colombia, Valle del Cauca, Ansermanuevo, Hacienda El Amparo, Cauca River Basin, río Chanco, 04°46’N 75°58’W, elevation 950 m; A. Ortega, 18 Mar 2002. Paratypes. IAvH-P 3997 (9, 108.0– 211.4 mm TL). Collected with holotype.
Remarks: 13 paratypes cited in original description, 4 specimens unaccounted for; total length of smaller specimen in this lot different from that reported in original description (125.0 mm TL).
description: Published as part of Donascimiento, Carlos, Cárdenas-Bautista, Johann-Stephens, Acosta, Kevin Giancarlo Borja, González-Alvarado, Arturo & Medina, Claudia A., 2016, Illustrated and online catalog of type specimens of freshwater fishes in the Colección de Peces Dulceacuícolas of Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH-P), Colombia, pp. 401-438 in Zootaxa 4171 (3) on pages 402-405, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/260788