Jenynsia diphyes Lucinda, Ghedotti & da Graça, 2006
Iguaçu livebearer

Family:  Anablepidae (Four-eyed fishes, onesided livebearers & white-eye), subfamily: Anablepinae
Max. size:  5.51 cm SL (male/unsexed); 7.3 cm SL (female)
Environment:  benthopelagic; freshwater
Distribution:  South America: Córrego Passo do Aterrado and Rio das Torres, both tributaries of the left margin of the Rio Jordão in the Rio Iguaçu drainage, Brazil.
Diagnosis:  Dorsal soft rays (total): 9-11; Anal soft rays: 10-10; Vertebrae: 33-33. Distinguished by the following combination of characters: absence of mandibular canal pore W; long epiotic processes in adults, extending beyond the first vertebra; anal-fin with 10 rays; discontinuous midlateral and dorsolateral stripes formed by series of blotches on body; midlateral stripe discontinuous anterior to dorsal-fin origin; large third hypobranchial, greater than one-half the length of the second hypobranchial; and presence of teeth on fourth ceratobranchial of adults (Ref. 75966).
Biology: 
IUCN Red List Status: Endangered (EN); Date assessed: 07 November 2018 (B2ab(iii)) Ref. (130435)
Threat to humans:  harmless


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