Corydoras
tukano, a new species of corydoradine
catfishfrom the Rio Tiquié, upper Rio Negro basin,
Brazil
A Summary by Allan James
his is the new name given to Corydoras sp.
"Asher" or sometimes known as Corydoras
cf. reynoldsi. This Corydoras has
been around in the trade from about 1997 and has just
been named in a new paper by Marcelo R.Britto
of Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional da
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Brazil, and
Flávio C.T.Lima of the Museu
de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo Brazil.
The differences are mainly the size and positions
of the blotches on the body between Corydoras
reynoldsi and the new Corydoras tukano.
You can see these marked differences on factsheet
51 from September 2000.
In this paper Corydoras weitzmani is also
mentioned as similar with the differences cited as
C.tukano having a dusky saddle between the
dorsal and adipose fins, the second trunk blotch extending
vertically from the adipose fin base to the anal fin
base and also the presence of four stripes in the
caudal fin.
