A new species of the Eigenmannia trilineata (Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae) species group from the río Orinoco basin, Venezuela

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Peixoto, Luiz A. W., Waltz, Brandon T. (2017): A new species of the Eigenmannia trilineata (Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae) species group from the río Orinoco basin, Venezuela. Neotropical Ichthyology 15 (1), No. e 150199: 1-8, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20150199, URL: dx.doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-20150199 A new species of the Eigenmannia trilineata species group is described from the río Orinoco basin, Venezuela.

The new species is distinguished from congeners by a unique set of characters including an ossified basibranchial 1; 198-217 anal-fin rays; suborbital depth, 21.3-26.1% HL; length of anterodorsal process of maxilla equal to the width of the posterior nostril; premaxilla with 17 teeth distributed in three rows; hyaline pectoral and anal fins; and number of scale series above lateral line, 9-10. It raises the number of species allocated to the Eigenmannia trilineata species group to 13 and the number of species within the genus to 18.