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Dorsal soft rays (total): 10 - 11; Vertebrae: 34 - 37. Distinguished from all its congeners and all remaining characid fishes by the presence of a broad, well-defined dark longitudinal stripe and longitudinal series of dark blotches along the dorsal and lateral surfaces of body (more developed above the longitudinal dark stripe) .: short and / or deep.
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Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical South America: Rio Xingu basin in Brazil.
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