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Article V.-A NEW CHARACIN FISH FROM BRAZIL. 
By Joun TREADWELL NICHOLS. 
The American Museum of Natural History has recently been presented 
by Mr. W. L. Brind of Bergenfield, N. J., with an aquarium fish said to 
come from Manaos, Brazil, which has not previously been described. 
Aphyocharax analis sp. nov. 
. The type and our only specimen, No. 5073, American Museum of Natural History 
is 44 mm. long to base of caudal; head 4.9 times in this measure; depth 3.7 ; eye3 - 
head; snout 4.5; maxillary, 2.6; least depth of caudal peduncle 1.8. Body strongly 
compressed, head short, eye large, mouth oblique, dorsal high, anal long and falcate 
its front rays curved backward. Dorsal base equal to depth of caudal peduncle, hs 
longest ray slightly less than depth of body; anal base 2.7 in standard length; its 
longest filamentous ray slightly greater than depth of body. Dorsal 10, anal 30. 
Fig. 1. Aphyocharaz analis sp. nov. 
Pectoral reaches past origin of ventral, ventral past origin of anal. The jaws when 
examined were somewhat broken, which made it difficult to study the teeth. A row 
of moderate cusped teeth on premaxillary and front of mandible, sides of mandible 
with smaller conical teeth. Almost the entire edge of the maxillary with conical, 
slightly recurved teeth, about 7 large ones. Scales in 35 cross series, the lateral line 
on about 11 anterior scales only. Color in spirits pale, more or less dusky along mid- 
dorsal line; no noticeable markings. 
From Aphyocharax filigerus Cope (depth 4.25, anal 28, scales 38), the 
type of which is figured by Fowler in Proc. Philadelphia Acad. Sci. for 1896, 
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