| Main Ref. | García-Alzate, C.A., A. Urbano-Bonilla and D.C. Taphorn, 2017 |
| Appearance refers to | |
| Bones in OsteoBase |
| Specialized organs | |
| Different appearance | |
| Different colors | |
| Remarks | Males have hooks on anal-fin and pelvic-fin rays (Ref. 118102). |
| Striking features | |
| Body shape lateral | |
| Cross section | compressed |
| Dorsal head profile | |
| Type of eyes | |
| Type of mouth/snout | |
| Position of mouth | |
| Type of scales | |
| Diagnosis |
This species is distinguished from its congeners with similar dark lateral stripe (cyanotaenia, loretoensis, melanostichos, nigricinctus, herbertaxelrodi, eschwartzae, montogoi, psittacus, metae, margitae, vanzolinii, peruvianus) in having only 3-4 pored scales in the lateral line, 21-24 lateral scales and 6 teeth in the inner premaxillary row; differs from H. loretoensis in having 7-8 maxillary teeth (vs. 3-4) and in having a longer caudal peduncle, 12.4-17.0% SL (vs. 4.6-8.0% SL); differs further from other species of Hyphessobrycon with a dark lateral stripe from the Orinoco River Basin (metae, acaciae) in having 2 teeth in the outer premaxillary row (vs. 3-4) and 10 branched pectoral-fin rays (vs. 11 to 12); differs further from metae by the length of the snout 17.6-22.8% HL (vs. 9.9-15.2% HL) and length of the caudal peduncle 12.4-17.0% SL (vs. 7.3-11.8% SL) (Ref. 118102). |
| Ease of Identification |
| Lateral Lines | Interrupted: No |
| Scales on lateral line | 20 - 24 |
| Pored lateral line scales | 3 - 4 |
| Scales in lateral series | |
| Scale rows above lateral line | 5 - 5 |
| Scale rows below lateral line | 4 - 4 |
| Scales around caudal peduncle | |
| Barbels | |
| Gill clefts (sharks/rays only) | |
| Gill rakers | |
| on lower limb | |
| on upper limb | |
| total | |
| Vertebrae | |
| preanal | |
| total |
| Attributes | |
| Fins number | |
| Finlets No. | Dorsal |
| Ventral | |
| Spines total | |
| Soft-rays total | 9 - 9 |
| Adipose fin |
| Attributes |
| Fins number | |
| Spines total | |
| Soft-rays total | 19 - 20 |
| Pectoral | Attributes |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays 10 - 10 | |
| Pelvics | Attributes |
| Position | |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays 7 - 7 |