Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences ISSN: 1679-9283
[email protected] Universidade Estadual de Maringá Brasil Endo, Kátia Sayuri; Monteiro Martinez, Emanuel Ricardo; Zawadzki, Claudio Henrique; de Souza Paiva, Luiz Ricardo; Ferreira Júlio Júnior, Horácio Karyotype description of possible new species of the Hypostomus ancistroides complex (Teleostei: Loricariidae) and other Hypostominae Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences, vol. 34, núm. 2, 2012, pp. 1-9 Universidade Estadual de Maringá .png, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=187123675008 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Acta Scientiarum http://www.uem.br/acta ISSN printed: 1679-9283 ISSN on-line: 1807-863X Doi: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.v34i2.9318 Karyotype description of possible new species of the Hypostomus ancistroides complex (Teleostei: Loricariidae) and other Hypostominae Kátia Sayuri Endo1, Emanuel Ricardo Monteiro Martinez2, Claudio Henrique Zawadzki1*, Luiz Ricardo de Souza Paiva2 and Horácio Ferreira Júlio Júnior1 1Departamento de Biologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo, 5790, 87020-900, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil. 2Departamento de Morfologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil. *Author for correspondence. E-mail:
[email protected] ABSTRACT. Cytogenetic analyses were performed in four species of the Hypostominae subfamily, three from Hypostomus (Hypostomini) genus and Rhinelepis aspera (Rhinelepini). Three populations of Hypostomus ancistroides were analyzed, which had 2n=68 chromosomes, but presented different karyotype formulas. Hypostomus regani and H.