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Copeia 2011, No. 1, 46 52 A New Genus and Species of Weakly Armored Catfish from the Upper Mazaruni River, Guyana (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) Jonathan W. Armbruster 1 and Donald C. Taphorn 2 Paulasquama callis is a new genus and species of partially deplated ancistrin loricariid from the Waruma River, a tributary of the upper Mazaruni River, in northwestern Guyana. Paulasquama differs from all other described hypostomines by lacking plates in an oval area lateral to the mesethmoid, by having small plates in the dorsal series below the dorsal fin (less than half the typical size of other loricariids), and by having a fleshy keel on the preadipose plate and slightly anterior. The opercle of Paulasquama is sickle-shaped as in basal ancistrins, but has a posterior connection to the hyomandibula as in derived members of the Ancistrus clade. IN 1971, a group of British explorers undertook an expedition to Mount Roraima, a tepui that straddles the borders of Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela (Warren, 1973). Members of this expedition collected two specimens of a small, enigmatic, undescribed species of ancistrin loricariid catfish they referred to as Chaetostoma cf. nudirostris. Most loricariids are covered in plates, and the only naked areas are generally on the abdomen, ventral surface of the head, and around the fins (Armbruster, 2004). Among ancistrins, Ancistrus and Chaetostoma lack plates along the snout edge with the naked area extensive and with large tentacles in male Ancistrus. The specimens collected in the 1971 expedition lack plates in two ovals on the top of the snout, but plates are present (although reduced) along most of the snout edge (Fig. 1). In addition, the plates of the dorsal series under the dorsal fin are less than half the typical size expected for a loricariid of the same body size, and thick skin covers much of its body. In 2008, an expedition by the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Guyana collected additional specimens of the same species from a remote site in the Waruma River (Mazaruni River drainage). An osteological examination reveals the specimens to be an undescribed genus and species that is described below as Paulasquama callis, adding yet another distinctive species to the extraordinary ichthyofauna of the high Pakaraima Mountains. Paulasquama, new genus Figures 1, 2; Table 1 Type species. Paulasquama callis, new species Diagnosis. Paulasquama is diagnosed from all other hypostomines by three unique autapomorphies: large, oval area lateral to the mesethmoid that is devoid of plates (Fig. 1; may appear as if entire anterior part of snout except for edge is devoid of plates because the skin is thick and odontodes on the plates over the mesethmoid may not penetrate in smaller specimens; vs. completely plated, with plates absent from a broad anterior margin of the snout in Ancistrus and Chaetostoma, or with smaller naked areas on snout and with plates just lateral to the mesethmoid and no plates over the MATERIALS AND METHODS Taxonomic methods follow Armbruster (2003) with the addition of predorsal plates (plates between parieto-supraoccipital and dorsal-fin spinelet, including nuchal plate). Counts of plates and some fin rays are made difficult because of the very thick skin that often obscures the borders between the plates and the procurrent caudal rays. Institutional abbreviations are as listed at http://www.asih. org/codons.pdf, with the addition of UG for the University of Guyana, Center for the Study of Biological Diversity. Names of plate rows follow Schaefer (1997). Osteological coding is from Armbruster (2004) and presented in Appendix 1. A phylogenetic analysis was performed according to the methods in Armbruster (2008, modified from Armbruster, 2004) to determine the phylogenetic placement of the new genus and to provide synapomorphies for it and to groups in which it belongs. Fig. 1. Dorsal view of left side of head of cleared-and-stained specimen of Paulasquama callis, AUM 50000, 38.0 mm SL. Note that the snout plates (SP) get smaller and do not touch one another medially. Photo by J. W. Armbruster. 1 Department of Biological Sciences, 331 Funchess, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849; E-mail: armbrjw@auburn.edu. Send reprint requests to this address. 2 1822 North Charles Street, Belleville, Illinois; E-mail: taphorn@gmail.com. Submitted: 8 October 2008. Accepted: 15 September 2010. Associate Editor: C. J. Ferraris. F 2011 by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists DOI: 10.1643/CI-08-187

Armbruster and Taphorn New loricariid genus and species 47 Fig. 2. Holotype of Paulasquama callis, 47.2 mm SL, UG 1654, Guyana, Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Waruma River, Kako River Mazaruni River drainage. Photos by J. W. Armbruster. mesethmoid in New Genus 2 of Armbruster [2008] from Venezuela); plates in the dorsal series lateral to dorsal fin reduced to less than half what would be expected for a loricariid of its size (vs. plates in the dorsal series lateral to dorsal fin large); and a fleshy keel along and slightly anterior to the preadipose plate and extending to dorsal caudal-fin simple ray along dorsal procurrent rays (vs. preadipose plate and dorsal procurrent rays covered in odontodes along medial surface). In addition, an unpublished phylogenenetic analysis reveals the following homoplasic autapomorphies for Paulasquama: loss of suture between hyomandibular and

48 Copeia 2011, No. 1 Table 1. Morphometrics of Paulasquama callis (n = 11). Landmark numbers are from Armbruster (2003). Landmarks Measurement Holotype Range Mean SD 1 20 Standard length (mm) 47.2 31.2 47.2 38.2 % Standard length 1 10 Predorsal length 46.3 45.2 50.5 48.0 2.0 1 7 Head length 36.6 34.7 39.9 37.3 1.8 7 10 Head dorsal length 12.8 9.9 16.4 12.0 2.1 8 9 Cleithral width 34.9 31.1 36.7 34.2 1.6 1 12 Head pectoral length 31.3 28.4 31.6 30.2 1.3 12 13 Thorax length 26.0 22.6 26.9 24.7 1.5 12 29 Pectoral-spine length 22.8 21.1 24.0 22.3 0.9 13 14 Abdominal length 22.3 21.6 24.5 23.4 1.2 13 30 Pelvic-spine length 20.4 20.3 23.3 21.8 1.1 14 15 Postanal length 29.6 28.0 31.2 29.7 0.9 14 31 Anal-fin spine length 11.4 6.7 11.4 8.6 1.4 10 12 Dorsal pectoral distance 29.7 27.3 32.0 29.7 1.6 10 11 Dorsal spine length 22.8 20.0 24.1 22.8 1.3 10 13 Dorsal pelvic distance 25.4 19.4 25.4 22.7 2.1 10 16 Dorsal-fin base length 24.7 21.7 26.9 24.7 1.4 16 17 Dorsal adipose distance 9.2 8.4 16.2 11.5 2.7 17 18 Adipose-spine length 11.6 9.4 13.8 12.0 1.3 17 19 Adipose upper caudal distance 18.2 14.4 21.4 17.9 1.9 15 19 Caudal peduncle depth 9.1 8.5 11.6 9.6 1.0 15 17 Adipose lower caudal distance 23.7 18.6 26.8 23.6 2.1 14 17 Adipose anal distance 15.4 14.0 17.0 15.5 0.8 14 16 Dorsal anal distance 14.8 12.6 15.9 14.5 1.0 13 16 Pelvic dorsal distance 26.3 23.0 28.1 25.3 1.5 % Head length 5 7 Head eye length 32.5 32.5 40.1 36.7 2.2 4 5 Orbit diameter 14.5 13.8 17.3 15.3 1.2 1 4 Snout length 65.2 54.7 65.2 59.7 2.8 2 3 Internares width 12.3 9.5 13.5 11.1 1.2 5 6 Interorbital width 49.7 49.4 55.5 52.0 2.0 7 12 Head depth 62.4 59.9 68.5 64.0 2.7 1 24 Mouth length 63.3 52.8 66.9 57.5 4.3 21 22 Mouth width 72.3 67.5 79.1 72.2 3.8 22 23 Barbel length 4.9 1.3 6.3 3.8 1.5 25 26 Dentary tooth cup length 24.9 22.2 26.5 24.5 1.3 27 28 Premaxillary tooth cup length 24.4 23.9 28.9 25.9 1.7 compound pterotic (34:0), hyomandibular contacts only compound pterotic (35:1), reversal to a horizontally oriented preopercle (61:0), loss of plates between the suprapreopercle and exposed opercle (81:0), reduction of a ridge referred to as Baudelot s ligament in Schaefer (1987) and Armbruster (2004; 93:0), but which is partially an ossified Baudelot s ligament and partially a flange of the basioccipital (Geerinckx et al., 2007), loss of external contact between the sphenotic and last infraorbital (117:1), reduction in the number of vertebrae to three to eight between dorsal fin and preadipose plate (120:0), reduction in the thickness of the ribs (all ancistrins have thick ribs except Paulasquama; 129:0), loss of perforations distally in the transverse process of the Weberian complex centrum (134:1), and exposed process of cleithrum forming a posteriorly directed point above pectoral fin (156:1). Etymology. Paulasquama from the Latin paulus, meaning small, and squama, for scale armor, in reference to the small plates located in the dorsal series just below the dorsal fin; feminine. Paulasquama callis, new species Holotype. UG 1654, 47.2 mm SL, Guyana, Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Waruma River, Kako River Mazaruni River drainage, riffles and shallow rapids upstream from camp, 05.4755u, 2060.77967u, 20 April 2008, H. Lopez-Fernandez, D. C. Taphorn, E. Liverpool, and C. Thierens. Paratypes. AUM 50000, 4, 1 cleared and stained, 33.5 42.0 mm SL, ROM 83784, 5, 15.4 42.4 mm SL, UG 1655, 2, 31.2 41.9 mm SL, same data as holotype. Non-type material. BMNH 1971.11.26.31 32, 2, not measured, Guyana, Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Waruma River, August 1971, M. Lyes. Diagnosis. As given for genus. Description. Morphometrics in Table 1, counts based on 11 individuals. Largest specimen examined 47.2 mm SL; 38.0 mm SL cleared-and-stained specimen with mature eggs

Armbruster and Taphorn New loricariid genus and species 49 in ovary. Body fairly wide and dorsoventrally flattened. Head and nape gently sloped to insertion of dorsal fin. Parieto-supraoccipital flat and slightly rounded posteriorly, followed by slight indentation in dorsal plates. Dorsal profile sloped ventrally to dorsal procurrent caudal-fin rays, then inclined slightly to caudal fin. Ventral profile flat to caudal fin. Supraorbital ridge rounded, short, continuing to anterolateral corner of anterior nare; no ridge on compound pterotic. Mesethmoid raised slightly above lateral surface of snout to form slight ridge. Head contours smooth. Eye small, set dorsally on head. Iris operculum present. Interorbital space slightly convex; supraorbital ridge just slightly higher than interorbital space. Keels absent. Mid-ventral plates slightly bent at their midline above pectoral fin to form weak ridge. Dorsal plates normal in size anterior to dorsal fin, very small underneath dorsal fin (less than half expected size) and then increasing in size until they become normal at about level of adipose fin; dorsal plates may not support odontodes in juveniles. Plates in mid-dorsal series also decreased slightly in size below dorsal fin. All plates below dorsal fin covered in particularly thick skin with few odontodes, and those odontodes present often not penetrating skin. Five rows of plates on caudal peduncle, although occasionally with accessory plates between median and mid-dorsal rows. Abdomen naked. First analfin pterygiophore not exposed as platelike structure. No lateral plates converging at midline between anus and anal fin; ventral part of ventral plates covered with thick skin. Median series plates 23 27 (mode 25). Six to seven (mode six) asymmetrically arranged predorsal plates including skin-covered nuchal plate. Plates on head missing from oval area lateral to mesethmoid; plates generally present on mesethmoid, covered by thick skin in smaller individuals. Plates present along lateral margin of snout, but decreasing in size medially; snout plates do not touch medially, tip of snout with large naked area; odontodes of plates may not penetrate skin in smaller individuals, and plates along snout generally not discernible except by seeing odontodes emergent from thick skin. Infraorbitals, compound pterotic, frontal, opercle, parietosupraoccipital, and sphenotic supporting odontodes, but bones occasionally covered in thick skin that may obscure whether or not they support odontodes. Skin relatively thick over entire body, especially on head, nape, and along flanks below dorsal fin; thick skin often obscuring borders between plates and procurrent fin rays; bases of paired, anal, and dorsal fins surrounded by wide, fleshy areas devoid of odontodes. Hypertrophied cheek odontodes four to 45 (median 30); cheek odontodes usually very short, not reaching beyond gill opening, and not much longer than other odontodes on body; however, holotype with two more elongate odontodes on one side that extend to the posterior edge of exposed cleithrum; only four odontodes penetrating odontode sheaths on left side of holotype, 14 on right, although many more odontode sheaths present. Cheek plates evertible to approximately 90u from head. Odontodes on tip of pectoral-fin spine very slightly hypertrophied. Dorsal fin not reaching preadipose plate when adpressed; dorsal-fin spine short. Dorsal-fin spinelet V-shaped, dorsal-fin spine lock functional, but spinelet covered in thick skin. Dorsal fin II,7. Adipose fin with one preadipose plate and short spine oriented almost parallel with body; adipose-fin membrane small; preadipose plate covered in thick skin forming keel extending slightly anteriorly, odontodes present only on plate laterally; keel extending posteriorly over dorsal procurrent caudal-fin rays. Caudal fin slightly emarginate, lower lobe longer than upper, i,14,i with apparently five dorsal and two to three (mode three) ventral procurrent fin rays (procurrents very small and covered with thick skin making them difficult to accurately count). Anal fin i,5, short with unbranched ray weak and about two-thirds length of first branched ray. Pectoral fin I,6; spine very short, not quite reaching anterior insertion of pelvic fin; posterior rays covered in thick skin in holotype; posteriormost ray short and relatively simple, often difficult to discern. Pelvic fin i,5; reaching to middle of anal fin when adpressed; unbranched pelvic-fin ray slightly widened. Flap between anterior and posterior nares short. Lips wide, fairly thin. Upper lip with small, round papillae. Lower lip with medium-sized papillae anteriorly and fading to none posteriorly; posterior border of lower lip crenulate. Maxillary barbel very short, completely adnate to lip. Buccal papilla represented by very small flap, never absent. Jaws long, dentaries and premaxillaries forming slight arc, almost straight. Teeth narrow and short, bifid with relatively long, pointed cusps, lateral cusp approximately one-half length of medial cusp; 51 97 dentary teeth (mode 80) and 52 96 premaxillary teeth (mode 74). Color. Base color of body and head dark brown with slightly darker mottling. Some individuals with five dorsal saddles slightly visible, first just posterior to head, second below anterior dorsal-fin rays, third at and slightly behind dorsal fin, fourth below preadipose plate and base of spine, and fifth at end of caudal peduncle. Some individuals with faint light spots on head, nape, and under dorsal fin. Dorsalfin spine and rays with oblong spots; interradial membranes unmarked. Paired fins with blotches on rays and spines that form two or three faint bands, interradial membranes usually clear. Caudal fin with dark spots on rays and spines combining to form three to five dark bands slightly wider than light interspaces; interradial membranes usually clear or slightly darker in region of bands; tips of caudal fin white. Abdomen and anal fin cream-colored to tan. Sexual dimorphism. Holotype (presumably male) with enlarged papillae along snout (presumably odontode sheaths), some of which have hypertrophied odontodes penetrating, suggesting that nuptial male Paulasquama callis may have hypertrophied odontodes along snout margin like many members of the Ancistrus clade. Holotype also with slightly longer odontodes on pectoral spine than other specimens and posterior rays of pectoral fin with thicker skin. Life history. The specimen that was cleared and stained has a relatively short gut for a loricariid. Preserved loricariids rarely have food in the stomach (JWA, pers. obs); however, this specimen had a very full stomach; the food material was not readily identifiable. The anterior part of the intestine also had a high number of nematode parasites and was greatly distended (width over twice that of the posterior intestine). The ovaries contained very few, very large eggs (six mature or maturing eggs on one side and eight on the other), similar to the low number of eggs found in Lithoxus (Armbruster, 1998), but because the ovary was not distended, the fish may have recently spawned.

50 Copeia 2011, No. 1 Fig. 3. Map of Guyana with type locality of Paulasquama callis indicated by dot. Distribution and habitat. Known only from the Waruma River, a tributary of the Mazaruni River, a river that flows northeast from Mount Roraima (Fig. 3). The Waruma is a largely clearwater river with a slight black tint. Specimens were collected in a riffle in a shallow side channel over polished cobble and gravel. Some larger rocks covered in a grasslike vegetation. The watershed is forested. Comments. The BMNH specimens were not included in the type series because they had been kept with a tag that had a brass grommet. The copper in the grommet leached into the alcohol and turned the specimens green. Etymology. Callis is Latin (masculine or feminine) for a stony, uneven, narrow footway, in reference to the plates like cobblestones along the narrow mesethmoid with naked areas to either side, treated as a noun in apposition. DISCUSSION The phylogenetic analysis placed Paulasquama callis into the Ancistrus clade of Armbruster (2008; includes Ancistrus, Chaetostoma, Cordylancistrus, Dekeyseria, Exastilithoxus, Hopliancistrus, Lasiancistrus, Leptoancistrus, Lithoxus, Neblinichthys, Pseudancistrus, and New Genus 2). Schaefer (1987) first described an articulation between the opercle and the hyomandibular posterior to the opercular condyle in some ancistrins (then Ancistrinae; a connection anterior to the opercular condyle is also sometimes present). This character was always found along with a unique bar-shaped opercle (Schaefer, 1987; Armbruster, 2004, 2008; Fig. 4C). Basal ancistrins have the opercle modified into a sickle-shaped structure (Fig. 4A), which was found to be present in New Genus 3 (sensu Armbruster, 2008), all members of the Panaque clade (except Spectracanthicus murinus, which has a reversal to a triangular opercle), and Pseudancistrus of the Ancistrus clade (Armbruster, 2004, 2008). Paulasquama has the derived posterior connection between the opercle and the hyomandibular, but has the sickle-shaped opercle (Fig. 4B) suggesting that it would be intermediate between Pseudancistrus and the rest of the Ancistrus clade. However, when the species was added to the phylogenetic analysis of Armbruster (2004, 2008), it is most parsimonious to conclude that Paulasquama lost the bar-shaped opercle or that the bar-shaped opercle evolved twice. The loss seems more likely as Paulasquama has weak (small and flexible) cheek odontodes, and the bar-shaped opercle seems to provide a greater ability to evert the cheek odontodes in defense or display. The alternative is that the sickle-shaped opercle may have evolved twice, once in the Chaetostoma group and once in remainder of the Ancistrus clade. Paulasquama is most similar to the Chaetostoma group (Chaetostoma, Cordylancistrus, Dolichancistrus, and Leptoancistrus) and shares with it the derived presence of several characteristics, all of which are homoplasious in the Loricariidae: ossified second basibranchial (3:0), lateral wall of the pterygoid channel rounded (53:1), a mesethmoid that is anteriorly flared (102:1), thick skin or plates covering the nuchal plate and dorsal-fin spinelet (147:1, 149:1), and widened pelvic-fin spines in adults (177:1). The Chaetostoma group in Armbruster (2004, 2008) did not have any unique synapmophies, but Paulasquama lacks many of the characteristics used to diagnose the group, especially a large interhyal (6:0), a modified third branchiostegal ray (27:1), a long opercular condyle of the hyomandibular (38:1), a canal plate that does not support odontodes (84:1), a wide ventral process of the sphenotic (116:1), eight or more dorsal-fin rays (142:1), and a large space between the coracoid strut and the posterior process of the coracoid (164:0); all characteristics also homoplasious. The loss of plates on the snout and general reduction of body plates in Paulasquama is similar to that seen in the hypoptopomatine loricariid Gymnotocinclus anosteos (Carvalho et al., 2008). Gymnotocinclus has no plates on the dorsal surface of the snout and a more severe reduction of nearly all of the lateral body plates. The most extensive reduction of plates in Gymnotocinclus is from the dorsal series ventral to the dorsal fin as in Paulasquama. In addition, Hisonotus has a similar reduction in plates on the snout as in Paulasquama (Schaefer, 1998). Similar plate loss in these distantly related taxa may suggest a common plate development scheme in loricariids that could be arrested via paedomorphosis. Two other genera are found only in the upper Mazaruni: the cichlid Mazarunia (Kullander, 1990) and the lebiasinid Derhamia (Géry and Zarske, 2002). The unusual crenuchid Skiotocharax meizon supposedly has a disjunct distribution, being found in the Mazaruni and the Berbice River drainages (Presswell et al., 2000). Skiotocharax exhibits paedomorphic skeletal features usually associated with miniaturization, and the loss of plates in Paulasquama may have arisen via paedomorphosis as well. Armbruster et al. (2000) suggested that the barrier formed by Kaieteur Falls limited upstream dispersal of more derived taxa into the upper Potaro and

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