Collected from a black-water, terra-firme forest stream about 4-5 m wide and 0.5-1.0 m deep, with a predominantly sandy bottom. Also found in a large oxbow lake (Ref. 81201).

Upper rio Negro basin, Brazil.

South America: rio Negro, rio Solimões, and rio Tapajós basins, Amazon basin in Brazil.

Dorsal soft rays (total): 11; Analsoft rays: 27 - 31; Vertebrae: 36 - 37

9.5 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 81201))

Distinguished from all species of the genus and from all remaining characids by having a unique color pattern consisting of the combination of presence of a conspicuous, narrow dark midlateral stripe, a single elongated humeral spot, and upper caudal-fin lobe and middlecaudal-fin rays dark, with a clear, rounded ocellated spot present dorsally at anterior third of caudal-fin lobe (Ref. 81201).Description: Dorsal-fin rays ii,9, not including small ossification anterior to first unbranched ray, discernible only in cleared and stained specimens; anal-fin rays iv or v, 23-27; pectoral-fin rays i,13-15; pelvic-fin rays i,7 (Ref. 81201).

benthopelagic; freshwater

Not Evaluated