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ICP 62 – Koerber Et Al (2019) Ichthyological Contributions of PecesCriollos 62: 1-14 (2019) 1 CLOFFAR - update 6 - supplement to Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of Argentina. 1 2 3 Stefan Koerber , Thomas O. Litz & Juan Marcos Mirande 1 Friesenstr. 11, 45476 Muelheim, Germany, [email protected] 2 Friedhofstr. 8, 88448 Attenweiler, Germany, [email protected] 3 CONICET - Fundación Miguel Lillo, Miguel Lillo 251, 4000 San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. [email protected] Remarks on this update In only six months 14 changes have been registered which alter the list of freshwater fishes found in Argentina. The total number of species has increased to 562 by two new species and two first records. One of the latter was yet another exotic species, Geophagus sveni, that has been detected in Argentina’s waters. Three resurrections from synonymies have been neutralized by three negative records for species listed for Argentina erroneously in the past. Also, four new combination have no influence on the total count. The single paper which most changes has been the description of the trichomycterid genus Cambeva to which four species have been transferred fom Trichomycterus. CLOFF update update update update update update total AR # 1 # 2 # 3 # 4 # 5 # 6 Myliobatiformes 6 6 Acipenseriformes 1 1 2 Clupeiformes 6 6 Cypriniformes 5 5 Characiformes 183 4 4 2 2 1 196 Siluriformes 200 1 4 11 2 1 1 220 Gymnotiformes 15 1 1 17 Galaxiiformes 4 4 Salmoniformes 6 6 Atheriniformes 4 1 5 Cyprinodontiformes 30 -3 1 2 30 Beloniformes 2 2 Synbranchiformes 1 1 "Perciformes" 3 3 Centrarchiformes 3 3 Mugiliformes 2 2 Cichliformes 41 2 -1 2 2 3 2 51 Pleuronectiformes 2 2 Ceratodontiformes 1 1 total 515 4 7 14 8 10 4 562 The aim of this list of species of freshwater fishes from Argentina is to provide an updated supplement to the ‘Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of Argentina (CLOFFAR)’ published by Mirande & Koerber (2015). Only those species are listed here that have not been included in that paper and earlier updates or which have undergone systematical changes since then. Changes in this sense may be new species, synonymies, revalidations, new combinations, first records etc., every factor which might modify the data published at present. Information already provided in CLOFFAR is not repeated herein. © www.pecescriollos.de 2019 - ISSN 1868-3703 Ichthyological Contributions of PecesCriollos 62: 1-14 (2019) 2 This list is not a publication in the sense of the ‘Code’ (ICZN) and expressions as ‘new species’, ‘new combination’ etc. are only used to highlight changes in comparison with the original CLOFFAR. ‘NEW’ after species names indicates that this record has not been included in previously published updates. ‘Info’ provides hyperlinks to the individual species accounts in www.pecescriollos.de, usually with figures and some data from the respective publication. class A C T I N O P T E R Y G I I order ACIPENSERIFORMES family Acipenseridae Acipenser A. gueldenstaedtii Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1833 first record for Argentina from the Paraná and La Plata rivers info published in Demonte et al. (2017) order CHARACIFORMES family Parodontidae Apareiodon A. vittatus Garavello, 1977 first record for Argentina from the Río Iguazú info published in Casciotta et al. (2016) family Curimatidae Steindachnerina S. nigrotaenia (Boulenger, 1902) resurrected from synonymy of S. brevipinna info NEW published in Britski et al. (2019) Curimatidae considered not to be distributed in Argentina Cruxentina insculpta Fernández-Yépez, 1948 | Aguilera et al. (2018) sub Steindachnerina insculpta | Britski et info NEW al. (2019) family Anostomidae Megaleporinus M. macrocephalus (Garavello & Britski, 1988) new combination from Leporinus info published in Ramirez et al. (2017) M. obtusidens (Valenciennes, 1837) new combination from Leporinus info published in Ramirez et al. (2017) family Erythrinidae Hoplias H. argentinensis Rosso, Mabragaña, González-Castro, Bogan, Cardoso, Mabragaña, Delpiani & Díaz de Astarloa, 2018 new species from the La Plata, Paraná and Uruguay basins info published in Rosso et al. (2018) © www.pecescriollos.de 2019 - ISSN 1868-3703 Ichthyological Contributions of PecesCriollos 62: 1-14 (2019) 3 type locality Santa Fé, río Coronada H. mbigua Azpelicueta, Benítez, Aichino & Mendez, 2015 new species from the Paraná basin in Misiones info published in Azpelicueta et al. (2015) type locality Misiones, río Paraná, Nemesio Parma H. misionera Rosso et al., 2016 new species from the Uruguay and Paraná basins info published in Rosso et al. (2016) type locality Misiones, río Acaraguá, Villa Bonita family Serrasalmidae Myloplus M. tiete (Eigenmann & Norris, 1900) new combination from Myleus info published in Ortí et al. (2008) family Characidae subfamily Bryconinae Brycon B. hilarii (Valencienes, 1850) confirmed for Argentina info published in Lima (2017) original Chalceus hilarii synonyms Megalobrycon erythropterus Cope, 1872 Brycon microlepis Perugia, 1897 subfamily Characinae Characinae considered not to be distributed in Argentina Cynopotamus gulo Cope, 1870 | in CLOFFAR sub Galeocharax knerii | Giovannetti et al. (2017) info subfamily Stevardiinae tribus Diapomini Diapoma D. alburnum (Hensel, 1870) new combination from Cyanocharax info published in Thomaz et al. (2015) D. guarani (Mahnert & Géry, 1987) new combination from Hyphessobrycon info published in Thomaz et al. (2015) D. lepiclastum (Malabarba, Weitzman & Casciotta, 2003) new combination from Cyanocharax published in Thomaz et al. (2015) D. nandi Vanegas-Ríos, Azpelicueta & Malabarba, 2018 NEW new species from the río Paraná basin in Misiones info published in Vanegas-Ríos et al. (2018) D. obi (Casciotta, Almirón, Piálek & Rican, 2012) new combination from Cyanocharax © www.pecescriollos.de 2019 - ISSN 1868-3703 Ichthyological Contributions of PecesCriollos 62: 1-14 (2019) 4 published in Thomaz et al. (2015) D. pyrrhopteryx Menezes & Weitzman, 2011 first record for Argentina from the Upper Uruguay basin info published in Almirón et al. (2016) D. uruguayense (Messner, 1962) new combination from Cyanocharax published in Thomaz et al. (2015) remarks not uruguayensis as Diapoma is neuter Piabarchus P. stramineus (Eigenmann, 1908) new combination from Bryconamericus info published in Thomaz et al. (2015) Piabina P. thomasi (Fowler, 1940) new combination from Bryconamericus info published in Thomaz et al. (2015) tribus Eretmobryconini Markiana M. nigripinnis (Perugia, 1891) Tetragonopterus anomalus is a jr. synonym info published in Carvalho & Santos (2015) synonym Tetragonopterus anomalus Steindachner, 1891 type locality anomalus: Corrientes, Río Paraná subfamily Astyanax clade Astyanax A. bifasciatus Garavello & Sampaio, 2010 first record for Argentina from the Río Iguazú info published in Casciotta et al. (2016) A. dissensus Lucena & Thofehrn, 2013 first record for Argentina from río Uruguay in Corrientes info published in Terán et al. (2016) A. dissimilis Garavello & Sampaio, 2010 first record for Argentina from the Río Iguazú info published in Casciotta et al. (2016) A. lacustris (Lütken, 1875) Astyanax asuncionensis is a jr. synonym info published in Lucena & Soares (2016) original Tetragonopterus lacustris synonyms Astyanax altiparanae Garutti & Britski, 2000 A. bimaculatus asuncionensis Géry, 1972 A. bimaculatus paraguayensis Eigenmann, 1921 Tetragonopterus jacuhiensis Cope, 1894 A. powelli Terán, Butí & Mirande, 2017 new species from the arheic of Río Sucuma, Catamarca info published in Terán et al. (2017) A. xiru Lucena, Castro & Bertaco, 2013 first record for Argentina from río Uruguay basin in Misiones info © www.pecescriollos.de 2019 - ISSN 1868-3703 Ichthyological Contributions of PecesCriollos 62: 1-14 (2019) 5 published in Casciotta et al. (2016) subfamily Hemigrammus clade Hemigrammus H. tridens Eigenmann, 1907 first record for Argentina from Río Paraná basin in Corrientes info published in Azpelicueta & Koerber (2017) Moenkhausia M. bonita Benine, Castro & Sabino, 2004 first record for Argentina from the whole La Plata basin based info NEW on the previous erroneous determinations as M. intermedia published in Vanegas-Ríos et al. (2019) Species from the Astyanax-clade considered not to be distributed in Argentina Moenkhausia dichrourus intermedius Eigenmann, 1908 | in CLOFFAR sub M. intermedia | Vanegas-Ríos et info NEW al. (2019) order SILURIFORMES family Clariidae Clarias C. gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) first record for Argentina from the Río Iguazú info published in Casciotta et al. (2016) original Silurus gariepinus remarks introduced exotic species origin Africa family Pimelodidae Steindachneridion S. melanodermatum Garavello, 2005 first record for Argentina from the Río Iguazú info published in Casciotta et al. (2016) family Pseudopimelodidae Microglanis M. carlae Vera Alcaraz, da Graça & Shibatta, 2008 first record for Argentina from the Pre-Delta National Park, info lower Paraná basin published in Almirón et al. (2015) M. nigrolineatus Terán, Jarduli, Alonso, Mirande & Shibatta, 2016 new species from the río Bermejo basin in Salta info published in Terán et al. (2016) Pseudopimelodidae considered not to be distributed in Argentina Pimelodus cottoides Boulenger, 1891 | in CLOFFAR sub Microglanis c. | Souza-Shibatta et al. (2018) info © www.pecescriollos.de 2019 - ISSN 1868-3703 Ichthyological Contributions of PecesCriollos 62: 1-14 (2019) 6 family Heptapteridae Cetopsorhamdia C. iheringi Schubart & Gomes, 1959 first record for Argentina from the Paraná basin in Misiones info published in Benitez et
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