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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Found in the two localities of the río Sucio basin, río Cascajales system, río La Colorada basin, río Magdalena basin (Ref. 93810).
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Main Ref: Vanegas-Ríos, J.A., M.d.l.M. Azpelicueta, J.M. Mirande and M.D.G. Gonzalez, 2013
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> Characiformes (Characins) > Characidae (Characins; tetras) > Stevardiinae
Etymology: Gephyrocharax: Greek, gephyra = bridge + Greek, charax = a marine fish without identification (Ref. 45335); torresi: The name is treated as a patronym in gratitude and recognition of Mauricio Torres who collected the material on which the description is based..

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

; Água doce demersal. Tropical

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South America: Río Cascajales basin, río Magdalena system in Colombia.

Tamanho / Peso / Idade

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 3.7 cm SL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 93810); 4.2 cm SL (female)

Descrição breve Morfologia | Morfometria

Raios dorsais moles (total): 9-10; Vértebras: 40 - 41. This species is easily diagnosed from other species of Gephyrocharax, except G. melanocheir, by the absence or vestigial adipose fin (vs. presence of a well developed adipose fin), the form of lateral branched pectoral-fin ray of males which has a highly developed branching pattern that distally forms a fan-shaped structure with minute branches (vs. less extensive branching pattern not distally forming a fan-shaped structure with such minute branches), and the distal portion of this pectoral-fin ray in males with minute bony hooks (vs. hooks absent) and a dark blotch or a few scattered dark brown chromatophores along its branches (vs. blotch or chromatophores absent). It differs from G. melanocheir by the following characters: intense black pigmentation at the base of the anterior five dorsal-fin rays absent (vs. present); 40-41 vertebrae (vs. 38-39); frontals contacting each other anterior to epiphyseal bar in adults (vs. the absence of contact); the posterior margin of the mesethmoid straight in its central portion (vs. strongly concave at this point); the pouch scale of mature males reaching caudal-fin ray 11 or the area between caudal-fin rays 11 and 12 (vs. reaching only to caudal fin ray 10 or the area between caudal-fin rays 9 and 10); 60-88 minute terminal branches of the lateral branched pectoral-fin ray of mature males (vs. 28-54); the longer midlateral black body stripe in males, reaching to the base of the caudal-fin rays (vs. reaching to the middle of the caudal peduncle); and the snout length 28.3-31.8% HL (vs. 22.1-28.0% HL) (Ref. 93810).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturidade | Reprodução | Desova | Ovos | Fecundidade | Larvas

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Vanegas-Ríos, J.A., M.d.l.M. Azpelicueta, J.M. Mirande and M.D.G. Gonzalez, 2013. Gephyrocharax torresi (Characiformes: Characidae: Stevardiinae) , a new species from the río Cascajales basin, río Magdalena system, Colombia. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 11(2):275-284. (Ref. 93810)

Categoria na Lista Vermelha da IUCN (Ref. 130435)

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Gephyrocharax torresi Vanegas-Ríos, Azpelicueta., Mirande, García & Gonzales, 2013