Description of a new species of Bryconamericus (Teleostei, Characidae) from the basin of the Golfo de Paria, northeastern Venezuela

Resumen

The new fish species Bryconamericus lassorum is described from the basin of the Golfo de Paria,
northoastern Venezuela, It can be dislinguished from other species of Bryconamericus by the possession of a
foramen on the maxilla, located adjacent to the anterior toolh-hearing borie, by the presence of a large, elongate
apophysis on the orhitosphenoid, and by the insertion of the proximal and riidial coinponeiits of the dorsal fin
pterygiophores between the neural spines of the 13-19th vertcbrao