Terán, Guillermo E.; Ballen, Gustavo A.; Alonso, Felipe; Aguilera, Gastón; Mirande, J. Marcos

Guillermo E. Terán

Instituto de Vertebrados, Fundación Miguel Lillo; UEL-CONICET. Miguel Lillo 251, T4000JFE San Miguel de Tucumán, TU, Argentina. (GET) guilloteran@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3795-3345 (corresponding author); (GA) gaguilera@lillo.org.ar, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5486-2787; (JMM) mcmirande@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4370-3526

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3795-3345

Gustavo A. Ballen

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Nazaré, 481, Caixa Postal 42494, 04218-970 São Paulo, SP, Brazil. gaballench@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5424-8608

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5424-8608

Felipe Alonso

Instituto de Bio y Geociencias del NOA (IBIGEO)-CONICET, Av. 9 de Julio 14, CP4405 Rosario de Lerma, SA, Argentina. felipealonso@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7227-2732

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7227-2732

Gastón Aguilera

Instituto de Vertebrados, Fundación Miguel Lillo; UEL-CONICET. Miguel Lillo 251, T4000JFE San Miguel de Tucumán, TU, Argentina. (GET) guilloteran@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3795-3345 (corresponding author); (GA) gaguilera@lillo.org.ar, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5486-2787; (JMM) mcmirande@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4370-3526

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5486-2787

J. Marcos Mirande

Instituto de Vertebrados, Fundación Miguel Lillo; UEL-CONICET. Miguel Lillo 251, T4000JFE San Miguel de Tucumán, TU, Argentina. (GET) guilloteran@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3795-3345 (corresponding author); (GA) gaguilera@lillo.org.ar, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5486-2787; (JMM) mcmirande@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4370-3526

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4370-3526

Edited by Priscila Camelier

Species groups	Species
Farlowella acus sensuBallen et al. (2016bBallen GA, Urbano-Bonilla A, Zamudio JE. Farlowella mitoupibo, a new species of stick catfish from the upper Guaviare River, Orinoco basin, Colombia (Teleostei: Loricariidae). Ichthyol Explor Freshw. 2016b; 27(4):325-32.)	F. acus (Kner, 1853)
	F. colombiensis Retzer, Page, 1996Retzer ME, Page LM. Systematic of the stick catfishes, Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann (Pisces, Loricariidae). Proc Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia. 1996; 147:33-88. Available from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027...
	F. martini Fernández Yépez, 1972Fernández-Yépez A. Análisis ictiológico del complejo hidrográfico (04) “Río Yaracuy”. Ministerio de Obras Públicas. Venezuela. 1972; 1:1-25
	F. mitoupibo Ballen, Urbano-Bonilla, Zamudio, 2016
	F. venezuelensis Martín Salazar, 1964Martín Salazar FJ. Las especies del genero Falowella de Venezuela (Pisces - Nematognathi - Loricariidae) con descripción de 5 especies y 1 sub-especies nuevas. Mem Soc Cienc Nat La Salle. 1964; 24(69):242-60.
	F. vittata Myers, 1942
	F. yarigui Ballen, Mojica, 2014Ballen GA, Mojica JI. A new trans-Andean Stick Catfish of the genus Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with the first record of the genus for the río Magdalena Basin in Colombia. Zootaxa. 2014; 3765(2):134-42. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3765.2.2 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3765....
Farlowella amazonum sensuRetzer, Page (1996Retzer ME, Page LM. Systematic of the stick catfishes, Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann (Pisces, Loricariidae). Proc Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia. 1996; 147:33-88. Available from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027... )	F. amazonum (Günther, 1864)
	F. henriquei Miranda Ribeiro, 1918
	F. platorynchus Retzer, Page, 1996Retzer ME, Page LM. Systematic of the stick catfishes, Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann (Pisces, Loricariidae). Proc Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia. 1996; 147:33-88. Available from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027...
	F. rugosa Boeseman, 1971Boeseman M. The “comb-toothed” Loricariinae of Surinam, with reflections on the phylogenetic tendencies within the family Loricariidae (Siluriformes, Siluroidei). Zool Verh. 1971; 116:1-56.
Farlowella curtirostra sensuRetzer, Page, (1996Retzer ME, Page LM. Systematic of the stick catfishes, Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann (Pisces, Loricariidae). Proc Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia. 1996; 147:33-88. Available from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027... )	F. curtirostra Myers, 1942
	F. taphorni Retzer, Page, 1996Retzer ME, Page LM. Systematic of the stick catfishes, Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann (Pisces, Loricariidae). Proc Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia. 1996; 147:33-88. Available from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027...
Farlowella knerii sensuRetzer, Page (1996Retzer ME, Page LM. Systematic of the stick catfishes, Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann (Pisces, Loricariidae). Proc Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia. 1996; 147:33-88. Available from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027... )	F. knerii Steindachner, 1883
	F. schreitmuelleri Ahl, 1937
Farlowella mariaelenae sensuRetzer, Page (1996Retzer ME, Page LM. Systematic of the stick catfishes, Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann (Pisces, Loricariidae). Proc Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia. 1996; 147:33-88. Available from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027... )	F. mariaelenae Martín Salazar, 1964Martín Salazar FJ. Las especies del genero Falowella de Venezuela (Pisces - Nematognathi - Loricariidae) con descripción de 5 especies y 1 sub-especies nuevas. Mem Soc Cienc Nat La Salle. 1964; 24(69):242-60.
Farlowella nattereri sensuBallen et al. (2016aBallen GA, Pastana MNL, Peixoto LAW. A new species of Farlowella (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) of the F. nattereri species-group from the rio Xingu basin, Mato Grosso, Brazil, with comments on Farlowella jauruensis, a poorly-known species from the upper rio Paraguai basin. Neotrop Ichthyol. 2016a; 14(3):e160046. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-20160046 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-2016... )	F. altocorpus Retzer, 2006Retzer ME. A new species of Farlowella Eigenmann and Eigenmann (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), a stickcatfish from Bolivia. Zootaxa . 2006; 1282(1):59-68. Available from: https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.1282.1.6/24837 https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/vie...
	Farlowella azpelicuetae sp. n. Terán, Ballen, Alonso, Aguilera, Mirande, 2019 (present study)
	F. gianetii Ballen, Pastana, Peixoto, 2016
	F. hasemani Eigenmann, Vance, 1917
	F. isbruckeri Retzer, Page, 1996Retzer ME, Page LM. Systematic of the stick catfishes, Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann (Pisces, Loricariidae). Proc Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia. 1996; 147:33-88. Available from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027...
	F. jaurunensis Eigenmann, Vance, 1917
	F. nattereri Steindachner, 1910
	F. odontotumulus Retzer, Page, 1996Retzer ME, Page LM. Systematic of the stick catfishes, Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann (Pisces, Loricariidae). Proc Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia. 1996; 147:33-88. Available from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027...
Unassigned to species group	F. gracilis Regan, 1904
	F. hahni Meinken, 1937
	F. oxyrryncha (Kner, 1853)
	F. paraguayensis Retzer, Page, 1996Retzer ME, Page LM. Systematic of the stick catfishes, Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann (Pisces, Loricariidae). Proc Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia. 1996; 147:33-88. Available from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027...
	F. reticulata Boeseman, 1971Boeseman M. The “comb-toothed” Loricariinae of Surinam, with reflections on the phylogenetic tendencies within the family Loricariidae (Siluriformes, Siluroidei). Zool Verh. 1971; 116:1-56.
	F. smithi Fowler, 1913

	Holotype	Range	Mean	SD
Standard length (SL)	142.4	64.2-193.9
Percentage of Standard length
Head length (HL)	24.9	22.8-25.0	23.8	0.8
Body depth at dorsal- fin origin	5.9	5.4-6.4	5.9	0.3
Body width at dorsal- fin origin	6.6	6.4-8.1	7.0	0.4
Body width at anal- fin origin	7.0	5.5-7.6	6.5	0.5
Predorsal length	41.4	37.8-41.8	39.7	1.1
Postdorsal length	54.2	51.4-57.6	54.7	1.6
Postanal length	54.6	50.0-56.8	53.9	1.6
Caudal peduncle depth	1.5	1.0-1.5	1.2	0.1
Dorsal-spine length	16.9	15.4-17.2	16.3	0.5
Pectoral-spine length	13.8	12.5-14.2	13.3	0.5
Pelvic-spine length	8.9	7.7-9.0	8.4	0.4
Anal-spine length	16.1	14.4-16.1	15.2	0.5
Percentage of Head Length
Snout length	73.8	65.3-74.3	69.6	2.7
Snout-mouth length	41.3	26.9-43.5	34.3	5.2
Eye diameter	6.6	6.3-10.0	7.7	1.1
Interorbital width	19.8	19.6-23.8	21.3	1.1
Head width	36.9	34.7-43.0	38.3	2.3
Head depth	22.8	21.8-28.0	24.5	1.9
Proportion characters sensuRetzer, Page (1996Retzer ME, Page LM. Systematic of the stick catfishes, Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann (Pisces, Loricariidae). Proc Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia. 1996; 147:33-88. Available from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4065027... )
Snout-mouth length / pectoral-spine length	74.4	48.9-77.8	61.3	9.6
Snout-mouth length / HL	41.3	26.9-43.5	34.3	5.2
HL / Snout-mouth length	242.3	229.8-371.3	298.1	44.1
Body depth / pelvic-spine length	65.9	63.1-78.9	70.8	4.4
Pectoral spine length / snout-mouth length	134.5	128.6-204.6	166.8	25.7
Snout-mouth length / interorbital width	208.1	121.5-218.2	162.2	31.2
Body width / snout-mouth length	64.4	64.4-111.9	87.3	14.2

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A new species of Farlowella (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper Bermejo River, La Plata River basin, northwestern Argentina

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