Two New Freshwater Fish Records for Trinidad and Some Comments on the Zoogeography of the Southern Peninsula

Authors

  • Mary Alkins Department of Zoology, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Gregory De Souza Institute Of Marine Affairs, Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago

Keywords:

Freshwater Fish, Trinidad, Brycon siebenthalae Eigenmann, Triportheus elongatus

Abstract

Two recent studies of the aquatic fauna of certain areas in the southwestern peninsula of Trinidad have yielded specimens of two species of freshwater characid fishes previously unrecorded for Trinidad. They are Brycon siebenthalae Eigenmann (1912) and Triportheus elongatus (Gunther 1864), both belonging to the family Characidae, sub-family Bryconinae (Géry, 1977).

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Published

1984-12-31

Issue

Living World 1983-1984

Section

Articles