T H E " C O M B - T O O T H E D " LORICARIINAE OF SURINAM, WITH REFLECTIONS O N T H E PHYLOGENETIC TENDENCIES WITHIN T H E FAMILY LORICARIIDAE (SILURIFORMES, SILUROIDEI)

  • Autor: M . B O E S E M A N

    INTRODUCTION

    The present paper is the third in a series intended to present a review of the Surinam representatives of the Loricariid armoured catfishes (Loricariidae), of which the previous two dealt with the Surinam species belonging to the genus Hypostomus Lacépède (Boeseman, 1968, 1969). Like these, the review now presented is mainly based on the extensive material assembled during the period 1963 to 1967 by the zoologists carrying out the Biological Brokopondo Research Project, sponsored by the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Research in Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles (WOSUNA), the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO), the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie at Leiden, and the Zoölogisch Museum at Amsterdam. Besides these specimens, now included in the collections of the Museums at Amsterdam (ZMA) and Leiden ( R M N H ) , additional material was provided by 4 ZOOLOGISCHE VERHANDELINGEN 116 (1971) the British Museum (Natural History) (BM), the Chicago Museum of Natural History ( F M N H ) , and the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle ( M N H N ) . Detailed information and photographs were obtained from the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia ( A N S P ) .

    Quelle und vollständige Arbeit: ZOOLOGISCHE VERHANDELINGEN 116 (1971)