Hypostomus Lacepède 1803
Creators: name: Ota, Renata Rúbia
name: Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho
name: Graça, Weferson Júnio da
name: Pavanelli, Carla Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Siluriformes
Loricariidae
Hypostomus

description: <i>Hypostomus</i> 1. Teeth spoon-shaped..................................... <i>H. cochliodon</i> 1’. Teeth bifid...................................................................... 2 2. Ground color light-beige, with dark-brown spots and/or dark-brown vermiculate pattern, slightly conspicuous.................................................................................... <i>H. ternetzi</i> 2’.Ground color dark-brown or grey, with several conspicuous light- or dark-brown blotches......................... 3 3. Body covered by light-beige blotches............................. 4 3’. Body covered by dark-brown blotches.......................... 8 4. Premaxilla with eight to 14 and dentary with 10 to 16 teeth.............................................................. <i>H. microstomus</i> 4’. Premaxilla with more than 15 and dentary with more than 16 teeth........................................................................ 5 5. Premaxilla and dentary with 19 to 32 teeth.......................................................................................... <i>H. margaritifer</i> 5’. Premaxilla and dentary with more than 32 teeth........... 6 6. Premaxilla with 35 to 46, and dentary with 34 to 46 teeth; pelvic fin longer or as long as pectoral fin................................................................................... <i>H. albopunctatus</i> 6’. Premaxilla and dentary with more than 48 teeth; pelvic fin shorter than pectoral fin................................................. 7 7. Premaxilla with 49 to 54 and dentary with 49 to 55 teeth; mid-lateral series with 25 or 26 plates; abdomen with plates concentrated on its central portion..................................................................................... <i>H</i>. cf. <i>strigaticeps</i> 7’. Premaxilla with 65 to 110 and dentary with 65 to 132 teeth; mid-lateral series with 28 or 29 plates; abdomen completely covered by plates................................. <i>H. regani</i> 8. Orbit large, its diameter contained 3.9 to 5.5 in head length.................................................................................. 9 8’. Orbit small, its diameter contained 6.5 a 9.5 in head length................................................................................. 10 9. Abdomen completely covered by plates....... <i>H. hermanni</i> 9’. Abdomen naked or partially covered by plates......................................................................................... <i>H. iheringii</i> 10. Dorsal fin long, its spine length contained 2.6 to 3.4 in standard length.............................................. <i>H. commersoni</i> 10’. Dorsal fin short, its spine length contained 3.9 to 4.3 in standard length.......................................... <i>H. ancistroides</i>
description: Published as part of <i>Ota, Renata Rúbia, Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho, Graça, Weferson Júnio da &amp; Pavanelli, Carla Simone, 2018, Peixes da planície de inundação do alto rio Paraná e áreas adjacentes: revised, annotated and updated, pp. 1-111 in Neotropical Ichthyology 16 (2)</i> on page 71, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20170094, http://zenodo.org/record/3678395