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. 2023 Jul;103(1):91-102.
doi: 10.1111/jfb.15410. Epub 2023 May 10.

Bilateral genital asymmetry in livebearer fishes of the genus Phalloceros Eigenmann, 1907, with description of a new species from coastal drainages of southern Brazil (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae)

Igor C A Souto-Santos  1 , Paulo H F Lucinda  2 , Paulo A Buckup  1
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Bilateral genital asymmetry in livebearer fishes of the genus Phalloceros Eigenmann, 1907, with description of a new species from coastal drainages of southern Brazil (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae)

Igor C A Souto-Santos et al. J Fish Biol. 2023 Jul.

Abstract

A new species of Phalloceros is described from the Tijucas, Maruim, Aririú, Cubatão do Sul, Rio da Madre, D'Una and Tubarão river basins in southern Brazil. The new species is diagnosed among congeners by the bilateral asymmetry of a hood-like structure located immediately anterior to the urogenital papilla of females. The hood is fused with the urogenital papilla on the right side, but free from the papilla on the left side. This hood is reported for the first time in the genus and is present in six of the 21 valid species of Phalloceros, but its bilateral asymmetry is an exclusive condition of the new species. These species do not constitute a monophyletic group. The new species is likely to be phylogenetically related to P. caudimaculatus, whose females have a symmetrical hood.

Keywords: Poeciliins; Santa Catarina; freshwater fishes; genitalia evolution; hood; papilla.

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