View source for Trichomycterus alternatus


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{{Publication to wiki notice
 | author = dos Santos, Sérgio Alexandre AND de Britto, Marcelo Ribeiro
 | author_abbreviated = dos Santos S AND de Britto M
 | year = 2021
 | title = The ichthyofauna of a poorly known area in the middle-southern Espinhaço mountain range, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil: diagnostics and identification keys
 | journal = ZooKeys
 | volume = 1054
 | pages = 25--66
 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.1054.67554
 | citationurl = https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=67554&element_type=9 
 | url = https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=67554
 | publisher = Pensoft Publishers
 | publisherurl = http://www.pensoft.net/
}}

{{Treatment start
 | Ordo = Siluriformes
 | Familia = Trichomycteridae
 | Genus = Trichomycterus
 | Specific name = alternatus
 | Infraspecific name = 
 | Taxon rank = 	
 | Taxon authority = (Eigenmann, 1911)
 | Taxon status = 
 | Wikispecies page name = Trichomycterus_alternatus
 | Pensoft Profile = Trichomycterus_alternatus
}}

==Distribution==
Rio Doce basin, in the states of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo, Brazil.

==Diagnosis==
''{{Taxon name|Trichomycterus alternatus}}'' differs from its congeners of the rio Doce and rio São Francisco basins by having seven branchiostegal rays; yellowish to light brown body color; rectangular or rounded sequential dark maculae at the midline of the body, sometimes fused and with a vermicular pattern, or forming a narrow stripe from the post-opercular region to the base of caudal fin; a row of rectangular sequential middorsal maculae, round or fused to maculae of the midlateral of the body; subtruncate caudal fin.

==Taxon Treatment==
*{{aut|dos Santos, S}}; {{aut|de Britto, M}}; 2021: The ichthyofauna of a poorly known area in the middle-southern Espinhaço mountain range, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil: diagnostics and identification keys [https://zookeys.pensoft.net/ ''ZooKeys'',] '''1054''': 25-66. {{doi|10.3897/zookeys.1054.67554}}