Check List 14(4): 693-697, doi: 10.15560/14.4.693
First record of the driftwood catfish Spinipterus acsi Akama & Ferraris, 2011 (Siluriformes, Auchenipteridae) for Brazil, Juruá River, Amazon basin
expand article infoBárbara B. Calegari‡, Alberto Akama§, Roberto E. Reis‡
‡ Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil§ Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil

Corresponding author: Bárbara B. Calegari ( barbara.calegari@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Cristiano Luis Rangel Moreira
© 2018 Bárbara B. Calegari, Alberto Akama, Roberto E. Reis.
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Citation: Calegari BB, Akama A, Reis RE (2018) First record of the driftwood catfish Spinipterus acsi Akama & Ferraris, 2011 (Siluriformes, Auchenipteridae) for Brazil, Juruá River, Amazon basin. Check List 14(4): 693-697. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.4.693
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Abstract
Spinipterus Akama & Ferraris, 2011 is a monotypic genus known only by the holotype of its single species S. acsi, described from a creek tributary to the Nanay River, in the Peruvian portion of the Amazon basin. A second specimen of this genus and species representing the first record of occurrence in Brazil is reported from the Juruá River, upper Amazon basin, Amazonas state.
Keywords
Taxonomy; Ostariophysi; biodiversity; Neotropics