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CAS-SU(ICH) 18145 Saccoderma melanostigma   [Catalog of Fishes] PARATYPE ID by/date  Schultz / 1944 Characidae
Counts (Alc/Skel/CS) 6/0/0 Prep Type - Preservative alc-75% EtOH Other/Previous Number USNM 121528 Size      
Collector; Vessel Schultz, Leonard P.  Field Number LPS 2-III-42 Date Collected 2 Mar 1942 
Continent/Ocean South America Country Venezuela State County
Water Body R. Negro Drainage Maracaibo Basin Island Group Island
Depth Width Salinity Gear
Locality Below mouth of R. Yasa (Zulia State?).
Latitude-Longitude 9.765499°, -72.494294°; uncertainty: 10000 m (Source: FishNet Collaborative Georeferencing Project) Bottom Type
Georef. RemarksThe description is too vague, I plotted the locality in the Rio Negro near the Machiques-Orope road as an approximate.
Acc. Number 1943-IV:16 Specimen Remarks Publ.: Proc. USNM v.95(3181): 315, figs.40-41. Possibly still on loan to J. Bohlke (SU inv. June 15, 1955) or transferred to S. Weitzman, USNM.
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